types of love in your life

Also commonly known as ?The High School Sweetheart.? This boy is the Kevin to your Winnie. The Cory to your Topanga. The Dawson to your Joey. Sweet, innocent, idealistic?this is the stuff coming-of-age movies are made of. The First Love is probably the first boy you?ll ever kiss. (Or at least the first one you?ll kiss and feel the earth move.) He probably plays a sport and wears a letterman jacket. He?ll give you his class ring (which is too big, so you?ll proudly wrap yarn around it and wear it as badge of honor.) Some people go on to marry their first love, and the list ends here for them. Most, however?wave goodbye to him one bittersweet day as life and circumstance pulls you in two different directions and growing up comes much too soon. He?ll teach you to drive, to kiss, to LOVE, to open your heart and trust and take chances, paving the way for all the other loves still to come?and then he?ll move on.

Maybe you met him while one of you was already in a relationship. Maybe every time you started to get close, life or work or something else completely unexpected came between you. Maybe it was simply God watching out for you, because He knows the two of you burned too brightly together to ever sustain a lasting spark. The One that Could Have Been is also often known as

This one will probably steal your heart in your early 20

This boy will seem perfect?and secretly, you suspect he is. He?ll say all the right things, do all the right things, be the very picture of everything you ever imagined you wanted?except now that you have it, you question if you?re ready for that kind of perfection. And chances are, you?re not. Life knows when you?re ready. GOD knows when you?re ready. So even though The One That Got Away offers you everything you thought you wanted, he offers nothing you KNOW you need. And what you need is more time. Time to date other boys you?ll like but won?t love. Time to not date at all and just figure out who YOU are. Time to become the woman you?re meant to be and that you?re closer than ever to coming face to face with, thanks to the lessons brought to you by four ?almost-loves.? And you?re almost ready for him?but not quite?so you?ll open your hand and set him free?feeling the beautiful double-edged sword of releasing what?s good and holding out for what?s good for YOU?while secretly wondering for the next few years if in letting go of ?The One That Got Away,? you really let go of ?The One.?

This is that love that you see in films. It's when two people are crazy about each other. There's not just a single component to this type of love. When you're truly in love, you adore the other person's mind, heart, body, and soul. It's the strongest type of love that there is, and you're lucky if you're able to experience it.

This temporary love is what you feel when you have a major crush on someone. It usually occurs when you

Are there any celebrities you'd love to date, even though they're thirty years older than you and currently married? That's the type of unattainable love that we've all experienced. Even though we know it's virtually impossible to get together with an older star, that doesn't stop us from daydreaming about them. They're so darn perfect, so how could we resist? It's human nature, after all.

Don't you just love how awesome of a person you are? If you don't think that's true, you have some work to do. You've all heard about how important it is to love yourself before you love anyone else. If you're not the biggest fan of yourself, then start listing all of your great qualities. You need to realize just how amazing you are--and trust me, you are amazing! Love is what makes the world go 'round. Which types of love have you experienced so far?

The kind of love that would take you back to a boy in your high school halls and how you quietly gush about how cute he is when he smiles and how you write creepy entries on your diary that one day he might drive you home and you

We can always look back to that one person whose love was either too good or too bad for us that it changed us. They could have showed us how dark abyss could be turned into a whimsical garden or they could have rocked the solid walls that guarded our petty hearts and we crumbled instantly to their feet. And like rubble, they left us. Without second thoughts.