Love Styles

Interpersonal relationships are social associations, connections, or affiliations between two or more people. Within these types of relationships comes a romantic aspect that includes six different love styles: eros, ludus, storge, pragma, mania, and agape. These love styles were orginially developed by John Lee in 1973 and then further expanded by Clyde and Susan Hendrick of Texas Tech University throughout the mid 1980’s. All six love styles are significantly different but everyone has experienced atleast one throughout their life. In my case, I’ve experienced all six at one point or another in my life. These models of how people love indicate the different ways of showing affection and or receiving it.
Eros is the love style that you will most likely see in one of your favorite romantic movies. It is the style in which two people love eachother with such incredible passion and desire for eachother. The type of love that focuses on physical attractiveness aswell as emotional. It is intense and gratifying to the two indivuduals in so many ways. I experienced this love style with my first love. The connection was immediate and the passion was clearly there. We gravitated towards eachother because we were both extremely physically attracted to eachother. When we were together, we were both in this state of bliss. Their was definitely chemistry and we understood eachother the way no one was able to understand us before.
Ludus lovers tend to treat love more like a game. They like to make their partners question their commitment and give mixed signals. They engage in relationships because they see it as simply a challenge. They aren’t fond of true commitments and believe that what the other person doesn’t know wont hurt them. I went through this stage in my life when my first love and I went through our breakup which was very tough on me. As a result, it made me resent relationships and made me view everything in a compeletly different light. I would play games and