Difference between Compassionate and Passionate Love

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Difference between Compassionate and Passionate
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• Is the passionate style of love different from
  compassionate love? How are they different? Well!
  We all have experienced it in our lives, yet, it
  requires to be defined more precisely for common
  understanding. This post elaborates on passionate
  love and compassionate love and also
  differentiates between the two on various
  parameters. So buckle up and navigate through
  this post until the end to get a fresh
  perspective on passionate and compassionate love.
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• What is Passionate Love? 
•  According to Hatfield (a renowned psychologist),
  passionate love is a state of intense desire for
  union with another. Passionate love is common in
  the beginning days. Couples in love experience
  strong feelings for each other. Passionate love
  has some common behavioral symptoms. They always
  crave the intimacy of the other person, may think
  of the other person constantly when not together,
  and experience severe distress when apart. The
  passionate style of love has two common forms
  Requited and Unrequited love.  

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• Requited love is a state wherein two individuals
  share a strong bond with each other and strive to
  be together. Contrarily, unrequited love is a
  one-sided feeling of passionate love that often
  evokes feelings such as depression, anxiety, or
  loneliness.
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• Characteristics of Passionate Love
•  To understand passionate love better, lets
  throw a look at its common characteristics
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• Idealizing the Partner or Relationship
•  Two people sharing a feeling of passionate love
  often tend to idealize each other and perceive
  each other as flawless. They lack the eyes to see
  the flaws in each other. Furthermore, they also
  believe that their relationship is perfect and no
  relationship can be so perfect as this.

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• Constant Thoughts about the Partner
• People in a passionate love state keep thinking
  about their partners around the clock. It fills
  them with immense joy and pleasure. These
  thoughts can be intrusive and hard to skip, even
  when someone deliberately attempts to avoid them.
•  Desire to Tell and Know More
• Another emotional characteristic of passionate
  love is a yearning desire to know and be known to
  another partner. People in love, especially in
  the initial days, can spend the whole day telling
  and knowing about one another without getting
  bored.
•  Strong Feelings like Never Before
• No feeling is simple in the people sharing a
  passionate bond. They feel extremely happy when
  things go well and feel devastated when adverse
  things happen in the relationship. There are no
  intermediate feelings.

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• Craving for the Physical Intimacy
•  Physical attraction is one of the most common
  yet strongest feelings people in passionate style
  love can easily develop for each other. They
  desire to come close to each other physically,
  and this feeling is really intense.
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• What Is Compassionate Love? 
•  Now that we have discussed passionate love lets
  relate and compare it with compassionate love.
  Passionate love is mainly characterized by
  intensity, whereas compassionate love is depicted
  by the level of intimacy. Compassionate love can
  be perceived as the later stage of a relationship
  when feelings such as trust, commitment,
  intimacy, and affection become dominant. It takes
  time but makes a relationship more beautiful.
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• Passion also exists in a compassionate
  relationship however, the intensity may
  alleviate with the development of other feelings,
  such as care and compassion. This form of love is
  more meaningful. Wherein, people tend to
  genuinely care for each other, understand each
  other, and remain committed at all times, be it
  good or bad. Disagreements happen, but
  compassionate love remains unaffected by the
  arguments and disagreements.

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• Characteristics of Compassionate Love
• Compassionate love can be understood by its
  common characteristics as stated in the
  below-given list
• Unshakeable Trust
• Compassionate love is marked by unshakeable trust
  in the other partner and their deeds.
• Disagreements can occur in situations however,
  people in compassionate love find a way out of
  the arguments towards a more agreeable solution.
• Deep Intimacy
• Compassionate love liberates people from sharing
  their deepest darkest secrets with each other.
  This level of intimacy and reliability strengthen
  the bond over time.
• Long-Term Commitment
• The commitment shared in compassionate love can
  endure the toughest situation and moments of
  mistrust. Compassionate love has the ability to
  bring things back on track even when nothing goes
  well in the relationship.

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• Genuine Affection 
• Partners who are in a long-haul relationship
  journey learn to show affection and understand
  its important to make the bond stronger. It is a
  crucial part of compassionate love.
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• What Are the Influencing Factors?
• Taking the above-given points as common
  characteristics, you cant ignore the external
  factors that can affect a relationship
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• Timing
• The phase of life wherein you are developing a
  bond decides if it will shimmer into a
  compassionate love or develop the feeling of
  boredom.

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• Way of Attachment
• The way people attach together also depicts the
  future of the relationship. If you attach it
  securely, the bong will grow stronger with time.
  On the other hand, an anxious attachment led to a
  short-lived relationship.
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• Compatibility
• Compatibility is also one of the most important
  factors that let a passionate style of love
  thrive into compassionate love.
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• Summing up!
• The factors discussed here can differentiate
  passionate love from compassionate love. In a
  nutshell, you can understand that passionate love
  is often briefer, but compassionate love can
  withstand the hardest situations of life and
  remain there for one another.
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