What's love to you? How do you define love?
I do not define it because I do not believe in it. Lest, I do not believe its vague, contemporary mediatized fantasy.
My conception about "love" is more attuned toward both Hesiodic, Aristolecian and Socratic conceptions of loves and willing: there has
philia or filialship, fundamental
eros/aphrodeitē ourania or spiritual attraction, the fundamental attraction which encompasses, belies and binds betwist the stars within and without everything, (ancient Greeks called it almost interchangeably "Ether" , "Logos" , "Sophia" or "primordial waters" all accordingly ancient Egyptian cosmological traditions, Kabbalians the "En Soph" , Gnoscistics the "Soul" or "Oneness" Christians named it "Holy Spirit" or "Logos" too, Mesmerics "anima" , New Age movements "universal/cosmic love" and fiction authors either the "Force" , "the power of Love" or "Dust" . From a modernally scientific standpoint, it echoes the proprieties of both antimatter/dark matter and dark energy in Theorical Astrophysics) and, to the other hand, the terrestrial
eros/aphrodeitē pandemos or passional attraction/carnal lust;
agape or altruistic love,
storge or both kinship/familiar love, patriotism/nationalism/tribal filialship and intimate marital filialship/duty,
boulesis or pragmatic/rational willing,
epithumia or bodily appetite/primal wish or willing,
phantasia or mind-visualized willing/desire, the never-named
ares or frenzy of combat/battle-lust/bloodlust,
thanatos or the impulse of death,
bios or the impulse of life,
nemesis or the willing for punitive retribution from either alleged or proven transgression or hubris,
philein or the love of philosophy and other intellectual matters, and a manifold variety of subtexts and deviancies such as platonical romance/romantic friendship, mild attraction, commodity fetishes and paraphilias, addiction, hypersexuality, hyposexuality, etcetera.
If we're talking about non-platonic intersexual relationships, I would resume his in seven subtexts: storgaic bonding, various forms of transactionary relationships, sexual attraction, various forms of hypergamy, opportunistic hypergamy/monkey-branching, casual relationships and any intermediate in-between (which includes a wide array of affective disorders too many times nefariously idealized and championed by society in media and arts) .
Attraction wise in intersexual relationships, I would rather say sexual attraction of course, but also intellectual attraction, aesthetic attraction, psychological attraction, mental attraction, genetic attraction, "romantic" attraction, sensual attraction, semi-platonic attraction and emotional attraction.
