Passionate Love vs Compassionate Love?

It is true, no word and sentence is enough to define love; one can understand it only when he/she falls in love. But do you know love can be passionate, compassionate and or the both. Today Relationship Counsellor Shivani Misri Sadhoo shares what is compassionate and passionate love.

Compassionate love is primarily characterized by two people’s mutual respect, attachment, affection, and trust. Compassionate love usually develops out of feelings of mutual understanding and shared respect for one another. Passionate love on another hand is characterized by intense emotions, sexual attraction, anxiety, and affection.

Passionate love generally arises when the two people meet each other’s preconceived ideas of an ideal love, and when they both experience physiological arousal in the presence of the other person.

Generally, passionate love doesn’t last more 6 months to 2 years, then ideally it should mature into compassionate love, which is far more enduring.


Everyone desires their relationship to become the combination of stability of compassionate with the intensity of passionate love, but to achieve that in life, both the partners needs to put constant efforts, make sacrifices and most importantly should manage their relationship effectively. 


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