The Definition of Love (and other things)

A few months ago I was having a frozen yogurt with Trevor Smith and he asked me for my definition of "Love"

I thought for a second an replied honestly.

Love is an inappropriate response to negative stimulus.

My answer caught him off guard. But as I explained my thoughts further, I feel he understood better while still not completely accepting the definition.

But the reality is that the definition is only one of a spectrum - a spectrum I felt was important to lay out visually.

Basically, I feel all relationships can be defined as a combination of two factors - stimulus and response.

There are positive stimuli and negative.

There are appropriate responses and inappropriate ones. I think the chart is pretty much self explanatory.

Let me know if you have any questions or tell me what you think