What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

In the beginning of the book, Mel talks about how he thought real love was nothing more than spiritual love. I think there of course is a such thing as spiritual love, but I think there is other types of love as well, not just spiritual. I believe there is a friend love, passionate love, sexual love, romantic love, committed love, and infatuated love. I think Terri had a pretty rough situation with love. A person trying to kill you because they love you so much is not love. A couple can fall in love, but when you want to kill someone over it that is not love anymore your actions are speaking more now. Love might have caused you to do something crazy because you care about someone a lot, but I think that it is more your thoughts and emotions that determine what you do about it and that is not love. Terri getting beat up while they are saying I love you means there is something wrong with that person and they need help. Honestly, once you put your hand on someone in a relationship to harm them you truly do not love them anymore. Your actions are speaking more than your words. By loving someone you need your actions to meet up with your words. First, you are putting someone in danger. Second, if you truly loved someone you would want what is best for them and harming them is never a good answer. When Terri argues that he still thinks it was love, I one hundred percent agree with Mel that it is not love. I do agree however with Terri when he says that people are different because he is right. Everyone is going to have a different meaning of love. However, when things are taken out of love such as violence and abuse or anything else in that matter I do not think you can compare that to love.