Valentine’s Day often centers one kind of love — romantic love — as if it’s the measure of all the rest. But the Ancient Greeks understood something we sometimes forget: love takes many forms.

In All Kinds of Love, a call back to a post I first wrote in 2015, I revisit the four Greek words for love — agápe, éros, philía, and storgē — and reflect on how they express different forms of love between people and in community.

Storgē: the enduring, protective love a parent has for a child is a love that does not dissolve with divorce, even when a couple’s love for one another falters. For children, when their family restructures, their parents’ commitment and firm presence exemplifies their Storgē love.

On this Valentine’s Day, it is my hope that our language can become more expansive so that when parents talk to their children about divorce and restructuring their family, they have ready and adequate words to support and answer the fears many children express at that time.

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