The different types of love you experience in your life
Still searching for love? The idea that you're just kissing the wrong frogs? No worries, often you have to experience different kinds of love before you finally meet your true prince charming. Unless you're the kind, like our Lilian, whose first love is also the great love (as a hopeless romantic, I find this so romantic).
So you have these different archetype men that you must have fallen for at some point, the ladies who become hopelessly in love with Dave Roelvink (hi, Kiki!) and the men for whom you would love to get a hall pass in your life (Kit Harington, hallelujah).
And with all those different men, you also experience different kinds of love. Here they come:
Puppy love
Your very first love. Think of a vacation boyfriend when you first went on holiday with your girlfriends, your high school sweetheart; the beloved with whom you probably experience a bunch of ‘firsts’. Kissing, introducing someone to your parents, playing under the covers; the whole shebang.
The difficult love
This is the kind you keep fighting for and maybe hang onto a bit too long, knowing that it's not good for you. In the back of your mind, you just know for a long time that it can't go anywhere. Think of a long-distance relationship or just bad timing. You live each time with extremely high highs, and then again with significant lows. You have to see it as a kind of bipolar love that helps you find the traits you ultimately do (or don't) want in a partner.
The forbidden love
The love that actually shouldn't be. Like having a crush on a friend's ex, a married man; just the Romeo to your Juliet. This doesn't end well for anyone, but the heart wants what it wants and at that moment your heart wants something that others won't approve of.
Unrequited love
The love that is not mutual. This hurts. But this is how you deal with it.
Real love, baby
This is the real deal. The kind of love that makes you forget all the above loves and that actually scares you. Something you might not have seen coming, that you have to work really hard for, but it’s so worth it.
