{"id":23,"date":"2007-02-21T21:33:35","date_gmt":"2007-02-22T02:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/2007\/02\/21\/companionate-love-or-romantic-love\/"},"modified":"2007-02-21T21:33:35","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T02:33:35","slug":"companionate-love-or-romantic-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/2007\/02\/21\/companionate-love-or-romantic-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Companionate Love or Romantic Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I googled &#8220;companionate love&#8221; and found out that it means:\u00c2\u00a0 a love that lasts forever; a soul-mate type love; and finally, a love that loves\u00c2\u00a0well.\u00c2\u00a0 I see no reason why romantic love can&#8217;t also be companionate love.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Terming it &#8220;companionate&#8221; makes me think of a companion.\u00c2\u00a0 Who wants that?\u00c2\u00a0 Afterall, I can get a dog or cat if I want a companion.\u00c2\u00a0 When two people fall in love, the romance should always be there.\u00c2\u00a0 It may not\u00c2\u00a0jump out when the\u00c2\u00a0rent is late\u00c2\u00a0or when the toilet backs up, but it should always\u00c2\u00a0be there.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Love is love and should always include romance.\u00c2\u00a0 When the romance is gone it&#8217;s time to get out of the\u00c2\u00a0relationship.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I googled &#8220;companionate love&#8221; and found out that it means:\u00c2\u00a0 a love that lasts forever; a soul-mate type love; and finally, a love that loves\u00c2\u00a0well.\u00c2\u00a0 I see no reason why romantic love can&#8217;t also be companionate love.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Terming it &#8220;companionate&#8221; makes me think of a companion.\u00c2\u00a0 Who wants that?\u00c2\u00a0 Afterall, I can get a dog or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/carmenc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}