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This 3 page paper explores the similarities and differences among platonic, romantic and familial love. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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a few general observations one can make about romantic, platonic and familial love. Discussion The first division thats usually made is between romantic and platonic love. Romantic love is a
"deep, intense and unending. It [is] shared on a very intimate and interpersonal and sexual relationship [level]" (What is love?, 2007). Most sources mention the sexual aspect of romantic love
as the defining characteristic and the single thing that separates it from platonic love and in fact most people would probably agree with that. Sharing intimate relations with another person
implies (or should) a deep commitment that could lead to a life together. Platonic and familial love can also contain deep, even intense regard for another person or family member,
but there is no sexual contact involved, except between husband and wife. Let us consider, then, that romantic love is love between two people who share a very intimate relationship
on every level including the sexual one. Of course there are sexual relationships that are for sex only, and last a matter of days or weeks-but these are hardly considered
"romantic," they are described as what they are: sexual encounters. As long as the two people involved are consenting adults, our society says this type of relationship is allowed, since
its not likely that every time a person is attracted sexually to a partner, that person will be a life partner. Platonic love is rather more difficult. It goes
back to Plato, as the name implies, and has its roots in ancient Greece. In the modern sense, "Platonic love" is the term given to an "affectionate relationship into which
the sexual element does not enter, especially in cases where one might easily assume otherwise" (Platonic love, 2008). The example here is that of a "deep, non-sexual friendship between two
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