Love acts to expand your capacities and increase your drive and energy. It stimulates the imagination and makes people more eager to achieve. Love often involves exploitation. A man may love a woman and yet take advantage of her love for him to ask that she put his interests first and subordinate her desires or career to his. 4. Both men and women need to be desired, admired, and assured of the other s love.
Studies show that women have an infinitely greater capacity to love than men.
Some people cannot love. Some have deep-seated emotional blocks that do not permit them to love. Others are too self-centered to give love. If there is an opposite to love, the closest thing would be indifference. The fact is that love and hate are very closely related.