All you need is love

The four types of love:

Eros - Romantic love

Agape - Divine love

Philia - Friendship love

Storge - Familial love

Each type of love is necessary for a successful marriage. Ideally each type of love will be developed before a couple ties the knot, but don't fear if you and your significant other haven't quite mastered all four of them - there's still hope. You can work on getting there together! In too many circumstances couples are over-reliant on eros, or romantic love. Don't get me wrong the romantic side of things is very important, it is in some cases that's what gets the whole relationship the little kick on the pants it needs to get things going.

Women are more reliant on feelings whereas men aren't as much. Is this a good thing or a bad thing or does it even matter? I haven't fully decided. My guess is that it is a good and necessary thing, but can sometimes be difficult in a marriage. Women love to talk about feelings and feel unloved or unappreciated  when their spouse doesn't seem interested in talking with them. In reality men don't show love through words as much as women do. Typically men like to show their love through actions. The important thing is that each couple can figure out how the other says "I love you" whether it be with or without words. 

Brother Williams is awesome. In class he asked us if we could think of a song that portrays love. (Not the love in the media, but real honest to goodness love.) His example was Aquabats "Red Sweater" which coincidentally is one of my favorite songs! My favorite lyric from this song is: 

You're my girl

I'm your man

I don't care if we live in a garbage can

I'm your man

You're my gal

I'm so glad that we are pals

You can go ahead and interpret this song anyway you'd like but it definitely shows each side of love in such a fun adorable way. The song that I first thought of however was Fictionist's "Suffering Angel." This is just such a sweet and tender song talking about the love one member of the band has for his wife. My favorite lyric from this song is: 

I have nothing to give you but my love

As for this life I don't own it 

Was a gift from above

If I've ever seen a reflection of God

It was when you

Saved me from all the things I was

This is such a beautiful lyric, I just love it! So tell me, what song do you think portrays real honest to goodness love?