Styles of Love

I'm rewriting my post about Styles of Love (hopefully without infringing on anyone's turf). I found the following from Wikipedia which is a simplier version of my original post but still fairly clear. I've included the link if you would like to read a more indepth description.

I think I'm mostly Storge with a little bit of Pragma, Mania and Agape thrown in at different times in my life/relationships. With my hubby, it's pretty much all Storge though. It's kind of interesting to look back on how my past relationships and figure out which "style" ruled my life at that point. Very interesting indeed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_styles

Love styles - From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Love styles are models of lovers developed by John Lee (1973, 1988). He identified six basic theories -- also known as "colors" of love -- that people use in their interpersonal relationships:

Eros — a passionate physical and emotional love based on aesthetic enjoyment; stereotype of romantic love
Ludus — a love that is played as a game or sport; conquest
Storge — an affectionate love that slowly develops from friendship, based on similarity
Pragma — love that is driven by the head, not the heart; undemonstrative
Mania — highly volatile love; obsession; fueled by low self-esteem
Agape — selfless altruistic love; spiritual; motherly love

Clyde Hendrick and Susan Hendrick of Texas Tech University have conducted extensive research on the love styles since the mid-1980s. They have found that men tend to be more ludic, whereas women tend to be storgic and pragmatic. Mania is often the first love style teenagers display. Relationships based on similar love styles were found to last longer. People often look for people with the same love style as themselves for a relationship.