What do you do when your love associations differ?
One way to define what love looks like is by love associations. I created this phrase to describe the qualities or behaviors associated with love. Sometimes they differ. A stepchild may love their stepparent, but not respect their authority like they do a biological parent. A stepparent may love all the children the same, but still find it awkward to hug their stepchild. When love associations collide, you get conflict. Don’t let this defeat you. It takes a while to merge definitions of love.