June 1, 2011 5:25 pm
Another psychometrically-produced typology of love is John Lee’s “colors of love.” Like Sternberg, Lee found three primary styles of love, or “primary colors,” which Lee called eros, ludus, and storge. He found that these styles combined to form three secondary styles or colors, for six love styles total:
Erotic love: Immediate, powerful, exclusive, preoccupying, sexual
Ludic love: Love as entertainment, for pleasure rather than for bonding, commitment-phobic
Storgic love: Stable, not intense, based on bond and shared interests
Pragmatic love: A combination of storgic and ludic love, which Lee called “shopping for a suitable mate.”
Manic love: A combination of erotic and ludic love, obsessive, jealous, self-defeating
Agapic love: A combination of erotic and storgic love, unconditional devotion, difficult to maintain
Here’s a visual of the typology I stole from dating-relationships.co.uk:
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