The six kinds of love

Most writing about love is really about romance. This site takes six kinds seriously enough to look at them one at a time. Pick the one you are inside right now.

Friendship

Relationships with no ceremony, no contract, and no obvious beginning.

All friendship essays →9 essays

Family

The love you did not choose, and what to do when it is complicated.

All family essays →11 essays

Romance

The one everybody writes about, approached without the usual assumptions.

All romance essays →36 essays

Self-love

A phrase flattened by marketing, worth reclaiming.

Growing Up Without Enough Love: The Signs It Leaves in Your Relationships
Afraid They Will Dislike You, So You Say Yes to Everything

Loss

What love becomes when the person is no longer there.

When Love Becomes a Memory: Learning to Live with Loss
It Took Losing Someone to Learn How to Cherish
What Loss Taught Me About Love, Regret, and Letting Go

Community

Care extended to people you will never meet.

The first essays are being written.