There are different forms of love. We’ve known this for millennia. There are also different kinds of understanding.
It might be hard to express in words those feelings that otherwise come naturally and conversely, it might be easy for a person to provide a excellent description of a certain form of love but be completely unable to feel or express it when a suitable situation arises.
The most common one of these, I think, is those people who struggle to see certain others (variable as per preference) as anything other than potential sexual (or romantic) partners, despite likely being able to understand the dictionary definition of Platonic love.
For my understanding of it, in the dictionary sense, at least, see above. For the other sense, I definitely understand some of them. Others I’m not sure.
There are different forms of love. We’ve known this for millennia. There are also different kinds of understanding.
It might be hard to express in words those feelings that otherwise come naturally and conversely, it might be easy for a person to provide a excellent description of a certain form of love but be completely unable to feel or express it when a suitable situation arises.
The most common one of these, I think, is those people who struggle to see certain others (variable as per preference) as anything other than potential sexual (or romantic) partners, despite likely being able to understand the dictionary definition of Platonic love.
For my understanding of it, in the dictionary sense, at least, see above. For the other sense, I definitely understand some of them. Others I’m not sure.