Love could be made up of many human emotions, developing more after hitting puberty. A child's love is more innocent that an adult's love, as a child could not possibly understand love. Most adults don't understand love, but rather rely on a description of someone else's experience. Adults try to understand new concepts as something more familiar, like math. If you look at love as a math problem, it can easily be split. The foundation of love can be split into three parts; love between family, haunting lost love, and love found in beauty.
Theodore Roethke wrote the poem, "My Papa's Waltz"(gwynn pg. 266), that describes how a child loved his abusive dad. This type of love is known as love you feel between families. A relationship built by blood is a lot thicker than water. "The whiskey on your breath / Could make a small boy dizzy; / But I hung on like death..." Even after the dad was drunk off whiskey, the kid still hung on to him. …
