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Storge: Advantages

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Storge love is a kind of companionship, peaceful and slow.

Storgic lovers are friends first.

Storgic love develops gradually out of friendship, and the friendship can endure beyond the breakup of the relationship.

Storgic lovers choose their mates based on homogamy, and sometimes cannot pinpoint the moment that friendship turned to love.

Storgic lovers want their significant others to also be their best friends.

Storgic lovers place much importance on commitment, and find their motivation to avoid committing infidelity is to preserve the trust between the partners. Children and marriage are seen as legitimate forms of their bond. Sex is of lesser importance than in some of the other love styles.

The advantage of storgic love is the level of intimacy between the partners.

The Storge lover is someone who builds a love relationship on a strong base of friendship. The goal is: A companionable, secure, trusting relationship with a partner who is similar in terms of attitudes and values. This similarity is much more important to Storge than physical appearance or sexual satisfaction because this orientation to love is more likely to seek long-term commitment rather than short-term excitement.


Storge: Difficulties

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Storge love lacks passion and intensity.

Storgic lovers set out not to find a love, but to find a compatiable relationship with someone they already know and share common interests.

Storge love is gradual prossess of unfolding feelings and emotions. At times the storge love can move so slowly it is hard to define where relationship stands.

Sex in storge love comes late, and when it does it usually assumes no great importance.