While some might say there are as many types of love as there are couples, its also true that long-term romantic relationships tend to fall into certain categories.
According to Robert Sternberg, who developed the Triangular Theory of Love, there are exactly seven of those categories. Here well take a love at the five types most would consider love. Any of them sound familiar?
Romantic Love
This is what Hollywood wants us to think love is. The foundation is passionthat giddy, swept-of-your-feet feeling. Along with that, theres often a sense of emotional closeness so strong you feel one with your partner. The problem with this type of love is that theres no commitment. Once the excitement wears off and the day-to-day routine sets in, this love can fizzle fast. There are better types of relationships out there.
Fatuous love
This is Vegas drive-through-chapel love. Love that makes you think you should spend a lifetime together after youve only known each other a week. As with the romantic variety, theres plenty of passion, but theres also a sense of commitment (hence the insta-wedding).
Whats lacking, though, is intimacy. The two people...