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Passionate love

Passionate love refers to an intense emotional state, involving sexual desire , feelings of ecstasy , and perhaps anguish. It is a state of intense longing for union with another.

 

Passionate lovers are absorbed in one another, feel ecstatic at attaining their partner's love, and are disconsolate on losing it. Moreover, Passionate love is defined as the feelings of intense longing, accompanied by physiological arousal, we feel for another person; when our love is reciprocated, we feel great fulfillment and ecstacy, but when it is not, we feel sadness and despair

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