Romantic love vs. Plutonic Love

1.)   Romance

2.)   Intimacy

3.)   Exaggerated expressions of love

4.)   False excitement

5.)   Reflections of ones inner most desires

6.)   Attachment

7.)    Emotional and sexual desires

8.)   Temporary freeing or optimizing of intimacy

9.)   Feelings of longing for

10.)                  Attractiveness

11.)                  Men are from Mars, women are from Venus

12.                  Physical intimacy

13.                  Like a spell, that only has three years of validity

14.                  Girard’s theory of mimetic desire[1]

15.                  Love being intertwined

16.                  Physically and spiritually expressive

17.                 Sexual love that tries to go beyond the realms of physical appearance

18.               Lust and ectasy

19.                  Unrequited love[2]

20.                  Euphoria

 

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[1] A theory based around the idea of jealousy. Romantic attraction arises primarily in the observed attraction between two others.

[2] Love that is not openly reciprocated, though it is desired