Why love is so important in all areas of life

Key points

• Returning to the work of Abraham Maslow, behavioral scientists have found ample evidence for the importance of love in life.
• Feeling unloved is, as Maslow suggested, a miserable feeling that inhibits growth and happiness.
• The acquisition of love, which manifests itself in all its manifestations, is without a doubt an integral part of the human experience.

Thought experiment: You must choose one of two lives

In life A, you are lucky to have grown up in a very wealthy family, and it is clear that you will never have financial problems as long as you live. And yet, despite the bad luck, in this life you never found love. And this fact applies to all types of relationships. You have a warm relationship with your parents, brothers and sisters. And despite paying for an updated version of every dating app you can imagine, you never found that special person, to the point where you kind of stopped thinking it was even possible. And you often feel lonely, despite all your material possessions.

In life B, on the other hand, you are deeply in love with someone who you know is the person of your dreams—your soul mate, so to speak. You share everything together every day, and each of you enjoys spending time together, even at such mundane events as visiting a Burger King restaurant together. And you trust each other in everything, completely. However, you and your partner often struggle financially and struggle to pay your bills on time every month. You manage, but it’s not easy.

I don’t know about you, but I would choose Life B; love without money. No questions.
Maslow’s hierarchy and the importance of love.

As Abraham Maslow first suggested in the 1940s, love is one of the basic human needs. According to Maslow, in addition to feeling satisfied with physiological and security needs (such as food and shelter), one of the basic needs of the human experience is the need to feel truly loved.

While love is often misunderstood as a vague experience reserved only for dreamers, all sorts of evidence suggest that love is a genuine feature of our evolved psychology. Love, which seems to motivate people to form deep bonds and connections with others, plays an important role not only in developing happiness but also in helping people form healthy alliances and communities that can bring all sorts of benefits. Moreover, love is represented in various neurological and hormonal processes. In brief: love is definitely a real thing.

In the history of human evolution, building close, trusting, and loving relationships with others is an important feature of our prosperity at all levels. In short, love is the fundamental element of self-realization. And this fact is true for people all over the world.

The great thing about love is that it can characterize a wide range of relationship types. Of course, love based on love or an intimate relationship is usually what is meant by the term “love.” But there are all kinds of important types of romantic relationships. Love often characterizes relationships between siblings, parents and children, grandparents and grandchildren, close friends, and even pets and their owners.

Love is a complex emotional state usually characterized by a sincere and selfless concern for the well-being and happiness of others, and this is good.

Harmful Consequences of Feelings of Disgust

Unfortunately, love is not always easy to find. And he often has a way of expressing relationships. So love is a gentle beast, to say the least.

If you think about the worst times in your life, I suspect that a significant part of those moments could be because you felt unloved. These experiences may include:

• Feeling unappreciated and invisible to your parents
• Survive betrayal in a longtime friendship
• Surviving infidelity in a long-term romantic relationship
• Being abandoned by a loved one
• Feeling rejected or offended by somebody close to you

We have evolved to seek, develop and cultivate truly loving relationships. And for this reason, feeling unloved, which can happen in many different ways, is the most terrible experience you can have in life. Relationship breakups, like the consequences of romantic relationships, can lead to true post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Think about it.

Conclusion

The older I get, the more confident I am that the most important things in life are free. And among the gifts that can make life so meaningful, the experience of love—real, genuine, mutual love—is indeed the key to happiness, growth, and growth on all levels.

On the other hand, feeling unloved for several reasons is the lowest possible feeling. If you ever feel unloved (hey, it happens), according to Maslow, finding love should be the main goal of emotional recovery and balance.

Want to get the most out of your trip during your limited time here? I’m saying that anyway, you may want to find a truly romantic relationship. As Maslow wrote years ago, love is truly the fundamental experience of prosperity on all levels. When Paul McCartney and John Lennon sang All You Need Is Love in 1967, they completely hit it off.

Love is all you need.