>>34132788
Weird-ass question. And the fact you include "settling" in that list shows you probably have a very skewed view of what love really is.

>Young love
Cute, Lust, fun times, hard lessons.

>Love at first sight
That only happens for pretty people and to pretty people. I am neither.

>"Just Dating" / "Seeing each other"
FWB, maybe exclusive. see "in love" but understand it's less stable than you might believe.

>Loving a friend
Stop that unless you see them more as family and less as a romantic option. For me these are brothers in all but blood for me.

>Someone who you genuinely appreciate and feel grateful for being able to meet, and can make you emotional because of how they make you feel
Good times, at least a good friend to keep around cause clearly both of you mesh well, even if it doesn't get romantic.

>Being "in love"
I've had better drugs, but I admit I like this one. like any good high you always wanna come back for another hit and as long as the source is good and you're good to your source. Congrats.

>Long term love
The goal, which weirdly seems from the outside looking at successes I've seen and met like Young Love but with the experience of knowing eachother's shit.

>Falling out of love
Withdrawl symptoms.
Ouch. That sucks, and best make sure everyone knows and handle it as reasonably humane and adult as possible.

>Settling
the Logic says stay, the Emotions say go.
If you're doing it, you're in the wrong, if you're feeling it from your partner, talk to them. Settling isn't always a bad thing, but at that point it's no longer love, it's business and treat it as such again, humane and adult as possible.

That's a lot of words to say

Optimism
Realism
Pessimism

>>34132788
>>Young love
aka infatuation
>>Love at first sight
aka bullshit
>>"Just Dating" / "Seeing each other"
aka American puritan bullshit
>>Loving a friend
Nothing wrong with this.
>>Someone who you genuinely appreciate and feel grateful for being able to meet, and can make you emotional because of how they make you feel
You have mental problems and are putting way to much one someone else's back.
>>Being "in love"
Why the scare quotes?
>>Long term love
What other kind of love is there?
>>Falling out of love
Why didn't you pick up your socks once in a while?
>>Settling
Incel cope

>>34132788
>>Young love
The heart flutters at the thought of kissing each other and sharing firsts.
>>Love at first sight
I saw, and the world stopped. We needed to share a life.
>>"Just Dating" / "Seeing each other"
Cute and interesting. We can have fun.
>>Loving a friend
We know each other so well. We'll hold on and make our lives better than they would be apart.
>>Someone who you genuinely appreciate and feel grateful for being able to meet, and can make you emotional because of how they make you feel
They are my life, and would make it better. I crave another day, hour, minute, second.
>>Being "in love"
You are worth my sacrifice and compromise. I hope you can do the same.
>>Long term love
Our life will be to our mutually defined good.
>>Falling out of love
We care for ourselves more than each other. Fixing this isn't worth the effort.
>>Settling
I guess this is better, I'll offer a little to keep benefiting from the relationship.

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>>34132788
>Young love
Novel, exciting, terrifying, 'butterflies'
>Love at first sight
Novel, exciting, terrifying, 'butterflies'. (Normal for teens, mental illness if an adult is still prone to this shit)
>Just dating/seeing each other
For mature people, people who take it slow
>Loving a friend
An ideal if it's mutual. Bad times if it's one sided
>Someone you appreciate and feel grateful for and makes you feel emotions
This should be present in all of the above
>Being "in love"
It's not actual love, that's infatuation. People can love who they are infatuated by, others mostly don't love the person they are infatuated on. They think they are though.
>Long term love
2+ years of sharing love with someone, dependable and consistent and secure
>Falling out of love
When infatuation ends, or the honeymoon period is over. If the person is immature and still doesn't know what love is and keeps mistaking it for infatuation, losing infatuation will mean they feel they fell 'our of love' and they leave.

>Settling
It's a word that usually describes the infatuation chaser's realization that they were retarded for thinking love was supposed to be a dopamine rush and not actually a repeated conscious choice. Settling isn't a bad thing, everyone eventually settles. Some settle down in the first relationship, others it can take them several relationships.

Settling into what? Into marriage usually. Or at least a permanent partnership.

Here's a helpful image for you OP

>>34132788
sounds like none of them are Jesus Christ loving the bride
you should be like Jesus instead of inventing terms for fornication and idolatry and sorcery and witchcraft and lust
end the carnality of the mind and seek the Spirit of Truth, only then will you know what True Love is: its Jesus Christ

>>34132788
>Young love
Horny
>Love at first sight
Horny
>"Just Dating" / "Seeing each other"
Bored
>Loving a friend
Huh?
>Someone who you genuinely appreciate and feel grateful for being able to meet, and can make you emotional because of how they make you feel
Oh! That's like comfort and trust and thankfulness and a desire to make that person a part of your plans, and to be a part of that person's plans.
>Being "in love"
Horny
>Long term love
Horny + that Genuinely appreciate stuff
>Falling out of love
Lack of horny
>Settling
Wouldn't know, haven't done it. Probably feels bored.

>>34136729
Truly the only true love is in Jesus Christ, but does the list contradicts this love?