So this post will be a lot of just notes and thoughts from class. I really found this class informative and super interesting.
So one of the things we discussed was the different types of love. There is:
Agape, which is the general love an concern you have for other.
Philios (sp?), which is a brotherly love to someone you have a connection to.
Eros, which is the romantic and passionate kind of love.
Storge, which is a parent/child love.
I think a lot of times people when they are dating they confuse eros for complete love. I really don't consider that love. I think it is an aspect of love but I think that in a relationship there is more to it. Maybe there is some agape love with it.
One thing I really caught my attention was the term misattribution of arousal. Holy cow! That is so cool! Well I don't know if cool is really the term I am looking for, but it makes so much sense!
This past year I was writing a missionary. I had never met him (long story about how that started) but we were writing and because he was on his mission of course he was always on this spiritual high. As I was writing him I began to trust him and start to like him. I think part of this was because he and I would share stories about our spiritual experiences we have had and we would discuss them. Then when he came home, he was not on this spiritual high anymore and I realized that I had liked him and trusted him because of the spirituality from the letters. Now we are just friends and I have realized I was misattributing these feelings of the spirit to liking him.
One last thing that I liked is really short but so powerful.
Companionate love: committed to another person. (this is the type of love I want, not just compassionate.)
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