Some people think love grows gradually out of friendship; someone else believes in love at first sight.
Whatever we have experienced as love is what we consider “real love”.
We cannot simply classify each couple into one type of love by using those 3 components as suggested by Sternberg (1986).
People differ in how they experience and express love (Lee, 1973, 1988).
There are individual differences. People have their own style of loving, no matter which types of romantic relationships they are.