2. What is Love?
- a positive feeling or
response toward a
person or an object
- according to the
Bible, it is a large
component, of which sex is
only one element. Other
elements include:
willingness to take
responsibility, kindness,
sacrifice, understanding,
3. From 1 Cor. 13:4-8
“Love is kind and patient,
never jealous, boastful,
proud, or rude. Love
isn't selfish or quick
tempered. It doesn't
keep a record of
wrongs that others do.
Love rejoices in the
truth, but not in evil.
Love is always
supportive, loyal,
hopeful, and trusting.
Love never fails!
4. Elements of Love
1. Physical Element – the
powerful urge of a man
toward a woman and
vice-versa
2. Emotional Element – a
very strong attachment
of one person to another
manifested in one’s
happiness in the presence
of the other and
5. 3. Intellectual Element –
a belief that they are
compatible with each
other. It is shown in
one’s respect and
admiration for the
ideals, principles, and
other fine qualities of
the mind of the other
4. Volitional Element – a
very great
6. Kinds of Love
1. Puppy Love (crush or
kitten love) - is an
informal term for
feelings of love
between young people
during childhood and
adolescence
2. Infatuation Love - is the
state of being
completely carried
away by unreasoned
passion or love;
7. 3. Romantic Love – is a
centering of attention
on the other person as
a focus of biological
urges and means of
relief from tension.
This leads up to and
over into marriage
4. Conjugal Love – is the
natural affection of
husband and wife. The
characteristics of it is
8. 5. Parental Love – it is
love between parents
and child. It is
manifested in the desire
for children and in the
self-sacrificing care,
protection, and love
for them
6. Filial Love – it is more
of the attraction of the
child for his father and
mother. It is
characterized by the
9. Characteristics of True Love
1. True love is patient
2. True love is unselfish
3. True love shows respect
4. True love binds a man
and a woman to enter
into marriage
5. True love understands
that marriage is a
relationship that is
sacred and indissoluble
10. 6. True love knows the
dignity of parenthood
and the beauty of
children and
endeavors to beget and
educate them
7. True love continues to
develop much more
after marriage than
during courtship
8. True love is
understanding
11. Enduring and Mature Love
Enduring Love
- One must take the whole
person, body, and soul,
not the body alone.
- One cannot love truly if
one has not learned to
control oneself
- It continues to grow and
develop to the very end
despite difficulties and
hardships
- Physical desire or
12. Mature Love
- A prime importance in
marital life
- It accepts all the
realities of life, joys,
frustrations and
defeats
- It faces the ups and
downs of married life
- A love that lasts
infinitely
13. Love and Sex Impulse
Love – a positive feeling
or response towards a
person or an object
Sex – refers to which
makes a man a man, and
a woman a woman
Sex Instinct – the inner,
biological urge that
explains the universal
desire to mate and
accounts for the
perpetuation of the
14. * Sex Instinct and Love
Instinct should run
parallel to each other.
It fuses into a single
impulse or hunger
when maturity takes
place.
Sex-Love Impulse
- a psychobiological
force incorporating the
idea of both the
15. Sex-Love Impulse – the
most powerful of all
emotions.
• Every aspect of life is
influenced by the
degree of
understanding the way
a person uses or abuses
the impulse
• Abuse of Sex can result
to love tragedy
• Healthy Management of
16. Effects of not
controlling Sex-Love
Impulse:
1. Early marriage
2. Untimely production
of child
3. Acquiring STD or
Sexually Transmitted
Disease(s)
“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.” ~Erich SegalThis statement could make me think that how to know if it is already love we were feeling at present and what is really love then? And right now, I’ll be discussing on what love is and its entailed details.
It is known to us that it’s hard to define love as to what it is. People can give different meanings of Love depending on their ages and experiences.
Love is manifested in one’s permanent choice of the particular person because of the character and distinguishing qualities and the former’s willingness to please, to sacrifice, and to give even oneself for the other. A true human love must possess the all four elements
Loving a person doesn’t directly considered as true love or whatsoever they call it. There are different kinds of love, with respect to biological society. First is …
True love cannot be defined but it can be described. With the following characteristics, a person is given an idea on how it is to be loving truly.
The secret of love is for each to resolve or renew daily the intention of loving the other party enough to make him or her happy rather than to be made happy himself, and to show this by action in many new ways the whole day through, everyday of his or her life
There is a higher degree of the sex drive in men than in women. It takes a longer time for a woman to be aroused than that of a man.
