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[–]ArthnoldManacatsaman 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Out of interest, what language is that?

[–]MezozoicGay 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Ukrainian. It is "любов", "кохання" and "закоханність". First means deep love to parents or to friends, second means deep and/or passionate love to your partner and last one means easy love or crush.

However, in last few decades in spoken non-official speech it is valid to use "любов" to a partners who are living together for a long period of time and now have "calm love", as "кохання" is more "passionate love".

[–]tuesday 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The greeks had similar. Agapa was a love one had for a god, a perfect being. Eros was the lust one had for a sexual interest. Philia was brotherly love, the love between equals. Philadelphia was named after that. And the last one has recently been whitewashed all out of it's original context: Storge, the love one has for a family PET or SERVANT.

Think about it. Philia is the love has for a male. It is literally "brotherly love". Women were and are still loved as the family pet or servant.