Love is a subject that people strive for. It’s a main point in poetry, music, movies, books, even advertisements. Each individual person has their own idea of what love they want in their lives, but can they put it into words? Written is a series of interviews based on love. The persons interviewed for this project were a generation apart. The four persons interviewed were Michelle, Tony, ____ and _____. Michelle and Tony are both 47 and are married. Each was asked a series of four questions related to the topic of Love. These four questions were: What is Love? What is Intimacy? What is Romance? and Do men and women love differently? …show more content…
Besides singing “baby don’t hurt me” immediately after hearing the opening phrase, how does one know exactly what love is? Love is a subjective emotion and has countless diverse definitions depending on who it is that is being asked. A child’s definition of love is possibly on the complete opposite spectrum than that of partners of over 50 years while others may not know or even feel love in their lifetime at all. Has one ever pondered the question, what exactly is love? The majority of people could say trivial responses similar to having a strong emotional connection with a person of significant importance to them or other basic dictionary definitions, but how will a person know they feel love or affection. When Michelle was asked about her definition of love, she responded that love is “a lot of things…it’s embracing people for who they are and the desire to make someone happy”. Tony’s thoughts on love was that its “the way [my daughter] looks at me when I sing to her in the …show more content…
There seems to be a concept that men are from Mars and women are from Venus, or simply two different planets and not on the same spectrum of thinking. A belief that is based on the heavy gender roles that have been passed through society for generations and will continue for generations to come. The idea that men are tough and physical beings, not capable of portraying emotions the same way a woman might and that women are sensitive and can’t “hang with the boys” because they will get hurt. The impression is that the genders are different, so the way they think must be completely opposite. Michelle first stated that woman love from the heart and men love from…. but quickly decided that it wasn’t paper appropriate and changed it to “men love for intimacy and women love for romance”. Tony, on the other hand believed it was possible for men and women to love the same; that everyone had a language of love and that its possible men and women can have the same language of love. He also made a note that men love by touch and woman love by