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compassionate love  

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  • Compassionate love is centered on the good of the other. The expressions compassionate love and the closely related altruistic love are used in recent research to identify a self-giving, caring love that values the other highly and has the intention of giving full life to the other, promoting flourishing. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Relationships; Compassionate Love]

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https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/compassionate_love

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