The meaning of love? As June Allison, the former actress, sales person and Zen mistress often said, "Depends.
" For there are different types of love.
One example is brotherly love.
Another example of love is sexual or physical love.
The highest level of love is considered by many people to be associated with sacrificial love.
Sacrificial love at its highest level is to sacrifice an advantage and defer to the needs of the other party on a voluntary basis.
What if you are a woman in a relationship and the issues of the physical and biological needs of your partner are important? What can be done? It helps to understand that we all have "needs" and they are normal.
Cultural norms tend to give us guidance and help with our sexual persona.
Still, our sexual identity is very much dynamic and subject to change with little advance notice.
Humans are wired and filled with various chemicals and hormones which are designed to bring us into contact with members of the opposite sex.
We can see this biological imperative at work in the interplay between men and women as they respond to each other and measure each other for the possibilities.
Much of this behavior has a subconscious basis.
Researchers of human behavior have shown that humans and in particular couples will often mirror each other's behavior.
Mirroring is a form of acceptance, confirmation and encouragement of the other party.
Examples of mirroring are speech tone and tempo, body and limb movements and deliberate eye movements.
Of course, there are negative signals that can be displayed as well.
When a party crosses his/her arms, we sense that things are not going well.
You can become informed as to what constitutes positive human interaction tells.
When you look for these many telltale signs, you are likely to see that they are all around us.
Furthermore, you can put these signs and signals to work for yourself.
The physical needs of humans may be centered around intercourse and species propagation.
Long before those goals are met, the parties may experience a broad variety of lesser interactions that are satisfying in their own way.
When we study the meaning of love, we need to leave room for these subliminal forces to express themselves which is, after all, their purpose.
When we allow these subliminal forces to have a healthy expression, the relationship almost always is deeper and has a greater chance of continuing.
By not allowing for these subliminal forces to express themselves, something is missing in the relationship.