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The dictionary defines love in several ways, which makes it complicating to ‘think’ about.
· Agape is unconditional love. It is love by "choice" even if you are not pleased. A good example is "God loves us with our faults".
· Philia is charity or brotherly love, guided by our likes or our healthy or unhealthy needs and desires. This is why Philadelphia is called the "City of Brotherly Love".
· Storge is the word for family love and the physical show of "affection", the need for physical touch. Sometimes it's the love between exceptional friends
Eros is the physical "sexual" desire, intercourse. It is the root word of erotic, anderoticism. (which off course breeded by lust or infatuation).