ABSTRACT
Based on an extensive review of the fictional and nonfictional literature containing statements relating to love, and on his own extensive interviews, Canadian sociologist John Lee arrived at six different orientations to love, or love styles. There are three primary and three secondary love styles identified in his book, Colours of Love. His primary styles are Eros, Ludus, and Storge. Eros is the style we typically think of as romantic love, and is named after Eros, the Greek god of love. Storge is a Greek word for natural affection, referring typically to family love, but also to couple-love, as in Fisher's attachment phase. The storgic lover makes a good companion; he or she loves peacefully, securely, and affectionately, but not with much passion or intensity. Agape is translated as "unconditional love," and is usually seen as the love God has for all humanity.
