Is love innate?

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Since I'm standing in the world's longest line at Joann's, I thought I look at the flip  side of my post the other day about hate - is it learned or is it innate? That was an interesting conversation, so I thought I would see what you think about love. Are we born loving or do we have to be taught? Does love come to us more naturally than hate? Is it a matter of nature vs. nurture, or is it more complex than that?

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Love is learned, bonding is innate (IMO).

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Can be either I think. The love I feel for my kids is innate but the love I feel for my partner is learned

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Innate but how we show it is learnt and often based off of social norms

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It can't be innate, otherwise we wouldn't have psychopaths/sociopaths. 
I think it's learnt from our parents nurturing us as children.

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to love is our most natural state of being. 
it is innate. but hate and fear is learned.

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I think love needs nurturing but hate can nurture itself

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I think the need to bond is inate, love is what happens after.

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I think it’s both.

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But when babies are born, us as mothers and fathers love them unconditionally, but they need us. They will learn to love us later on in life I suppose. I think love is learned and earned.

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As a Christian I believe that God is love. We are created in His image, therefore we have that same love in us. We are created to love!

Is love innate?

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