Look at how the ancient Greeks broke down love into four categories. Think of which category of love you feel for the people you are close toAgape is unconditional love. It is love by "choice" even if you are not pleased. A good example is "God loves us with our faults".Philia is charity or brotherly love, guided by our likes or our healthy or unhealthy needs and desires. This is why Philadelphia is called the "City of Brotherly Love". is the word for family love and the physical show of "affection", the need for physical touch. Sometimes it's the love between exceptional friends (the movie Grumpy Old Men for example). is the physical "sexual" desire, intercourse. It is the root word oferotic, and eroticism