The Seven Ages of Love

From the December 31, 1966 issue.

Now the 11th  generation of Americans has been born; now it is starting through the fundamental phases of life. Each phase prepares for the next: The love the infant learns in his mother’s arms helps him become a loving child; puppy love introduces the adolescent to a deeper kind. So natural is the process that we assume it, yet often the transitions are difficult. Many of us falter, even fail. But just as every failure spreads to affect other lives, so does every success, and there is in fact much love in this land. On these pages are seven glimpses of today’s Americans as, in their own manner, they obey the ancient urges to share the prime intimacies of life and to send posterity into the future they will never see.

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  1. Frank James Davis
    Posted February 11, 2010 at 4:59 pm | Permalink

    Sad how many couples do not complete the journey together.

  2. Woodwardone
    Posted February 12, 2010 at 12:17 am | Permalink

    How interesting that I see so many more stages of love and so many more ways to love and so many different kinds of relationships. This E-motion, Love — energy in motion and so you too can love a tree, a cat, an star-draped sky, the person you see every day consistently showing up being there just for you – a picture of constancy even though you have no societal basis to say I must care for this person. Love looks for good. It is not apportioned by economics or biology. It is why, even when we grow old — we still say “we are the children of the world.”

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