Love is many things; there is not a single description that can be accurate. Love can be described as the openness of a relationship, sexual attraction between partners, or can be seen as pure attraction to each other's personalities. In Jonathon Haidt's book, The Happiness Hypothesis, he writes about the types of love that exist and which ones he considers the most important. There are two main types of love: companionate love and passionate love. Haidt defines true love as companionate love, having more importance in a relationship than that of passionate love. Companionate love is seen as a stronger love than passionate love, because because of a better understanding of companionship, passionate love will not be eternal. The idea of ​​companionship rather than passion makes sense, but the media has formed a different view of love that has distorted the true imagery of love. All relationships have the stage of new love, but the companionship stage is what allows the relationship to last. Passion in a relationship begins and can affect what the relationship might become. Haidt cites Ellen Berscheid and Elaine Walster, two social psychologists, who explain passionate love as "a wild emotional state in which tender and sexual feelings, elation and pain, anxiety and relief, altruism and jealousy coexist in a confusion of feelings” (124). ), while companionate love has also been described by Berscheid and Walster as “the affection we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply intertwined” (125). The main difference between the two types of love is that passionate love can, and most likely will, fade over time; it does not evolve into companionate love. Passionate and companion are two bases of love which develop at their own pace without real r...... middle of paper ...... endless passionate love; this erroneous idea has come from the media into our daily lives. The media has given us false hope about what love is supposed to be. Companionate love is the true love we need to create an everlasting bond with a person. Companionate love has an agent of acceptance in love, so once a person has accepted love and their partner for the person they are, it is more love than love. 'an affection shared in passionate love. That’s all love really is; it is simply an acceptance of understanding the connection that exists between one person and another. Works Cited Haidt, Jonathan. The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom. New York: Basic, 2006. Print. Galician, Mary-Lou. Sex, love and romance in mass media: analysis and critique of unrealistic representations and their influence. Mahwah, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004. PDF.