Love in the 21st century

Love can be a very subjective and confusing subject for a lot of people. Two different people will give two different meanings to love. Love can be seen as respect or trust or a combination of both. It can make people happy and it can make people suffer. Many people would agree that love causes a range of emotions.

In all of subjects that one may experience, love is the one that has the broadest scope of interpretation. Simply put, we each have our own perception of what love is, and what it means to us. Here, you will discover the reasons why it is important that each of us experience some degree of love in our lives.

Studies conducted in the 1950s by Harry Harlow came to the result that humans need to experience the feeling of being loved to have a steady and healthy life. He came to this conclusion after undertaking psychological tests on people in relationships and people in isolation.

In support of Harry Harlow's work, we can also look at Maslow's work about the human hierarchy of needs, with love being very close to the top. This is regardless of age, gender or origin.

Maslow argued that all humans need social interaction. Once all the basic needs of life have been met, people look to form alliances in the form of family, friends and intimate relationships.

Love allows us to feel as if we "belong" - that we have a special place in not only the world as a whole, but in the world of another and our own world. When we love, and that love is returned, we experience a sense of acceptance. Those that fail to experience love firsthand may suffer through many different negative consequences.

Some of the emotional and psychological problems associated with the experience of not being loved are as follows:

1. Many may feel extremely lonely. This may just affect one area of life, or several areas. It is possible to feel loved at home, and not feel this emotion among others.

3. A feeling of anxiety in social context when around people.

3. Depression is often experienced by those that fail to experience love in their life.

4. In some extreme cases, people may develop suicidal thought patterns and unfortunately, some people follow through on those thoughts.

It is not so simple to define love. It can be said that love is quite close to the process of acceptance. The acceptance of others exactly as they are and looking for the best in people. It is also the feeling of being accepted by others for who you truly are, without putting on an act.

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