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There are as many types of love in the world as there are types of people in it. Here is a list of other types of love and what they mean.

• Tough Love: This is a love that is strict and all about holding you accountable and responsible.
• Unrequited Love: This type of love is a lack of love from one partner. In other words, unrequited love is when someone loves someone else but the
other person does not love them back. Unrequited love is “a love that is impossible because the person you love doesn’t love you back the same
way.”
• Obsessive Love: This is a dangerous kind of love, one that can often lead to possessiveness and even physical harm. To obsessive lovers, love is
mania. This kind of love is always referred to as “mania” love.
• Forbidden Love: These are the star-crossed lovers, the Romeo’s and the Juliette’s of the world. This love is almost always tragic, or it carries with
it deep familial or cultural consequences. This love is strong, however, for those who choose to continue loving those whom they are forbidden to
love, are clearly deeply connected and enamoured with their partner.
• One-Sided Love: This is different than unrequited love. When you are in a one-sided partnership, you have both entered into a relationship, but
possibly due to upbringing or circumstances one party contributes than the other. In some instances the other party seems to take advantage of that.
• Constructive Love: This kind of love grow you. It is the kind of love you have with your best friend, or a partner that consistently wants you to
expand as a human being. This love calls you out on your flaws, but they do not judge you — they help you to become the best version of yourself.
• Enabling Love: This is the kind of love that turns a blind eye to the things their partner needs to work on. Often, family members or partners of
those with addictions will start off with this love, until the situation requires more of them. Think about a mother giving her son money knowing that
he will most likely spend it on harmful habits. Or a father overlooking problematic behaviour even though he knows that you are doing something
wrong.
• Competitive Love: This usually exists between two highly motivated people and can show up in two different ways. In a negative light, two people
cannot be happy for one another’s accomplishments — they are always in competition with each other. In a positive light, both people are
competitive, but they support each other and push each other to succeed — they are motivated to be the best for each other.
• Resentful Love: This is the kind of love that usually exists in a relationship where one person has given up a dream or a career for another. Over
time, they resent their partner for allowing them to make them their whole world and feel like they do not have much to live for outside of their
relationship.
• Everlasting Love: This is the kind of love that lasts no matter what. It’s the love they write songs about. Distance and time can come between these
two people, but when they see each other, the feelings flood back. They are always connected, even when they are not.
• Artistic Love: This love exists between an artist and the person who inspires them deeply. This love is often tumultuous because there is so much
passion there, and it can often be one sided or short-lived when the artists feels like they have found a new like mind in another human being.
• Distant Love: This is the kind of love that exists from a distance. When you love someone, but you never act on it. You don’t even truly know that
much about them — you just feel deeply for them and would rather nurture that from a distance than ruin the fantasy of who they really are.
• Explorative Love: This is the kind of love that fills your bones when you touch down in a new city, or country, and you feel an overwhelmingly
strong sense of home. You may not have been born in this place, but you are immediately sure that you belong there. Page354