The Kinds of Love

wynneMember

Okay, so I thought I'd kinda float this out there. Lotta folks have been, like, talking about love, being in loving, loving their T, having erotic feelings/thoughts about their T, and the like. I was wondering what folks thought about love and loving.

I was also taught (ala C.S. Lewis) that there were four kinds of love -

storge - affection, like for puppies and stranger's little kids or something

philia (friendship-love, based on mutual interests),

eros - y'know.

agape (Christian love, or charity [caritas], or goodwill, as in "goodwill towards men" from the carol).

less-basic synopsis here.

I always thought of what Ts and teachers and those sorts of folks feel for their clients/students, etc as somewhere between storge and goodwill, while what clients/students feel for them runs the whole gamut. But I also wonder if these kinds of distinctions are useful - I always feel like they leave something out.

....crazy?

1/24/098:10 AM

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