ABSTRACT
Romantic lovers share what is important in their lives. In order to understand romantic love, we need to understand how two people can truly share feelings and actions. Max Scheler and Edith Stein offer us some valuable insights on this issue. This chapter introduces three major models of romantic love: the fusion model, the care model, and the dialogue model. It argues in support of the third model, which views romantic love essentially as a form of sharing. The thoughts of Max Scheler and Edith Stein about sharing are reconstructed in the chapter, which holds that Edith Stein's perceptions, which in turn are extensions of Max Scheler's work, constitute a convincing account of collective feeling and acting and thus of what lies at the heart of romantic love.
