Editing Love (section)

==== Love as a necessity ====
The extent to which love can be labelled as a necessity varies in [[psychology]]. For infants, [[attachment theory]] states that there is a need to form a close relationship with at least one primary caregiver to ensure their survival, and to develop healthy social and emotional functioning (particularly between the ages of six months and two years). As children grow, they use these attachment figures as a secure base from which to explore the world and return to for comfort.<ref name="Cassidy">{{cite encyclopedia |year=1999 |title=The Nature of a Child's Ties |encyclopedia=Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research and Clinical Applications |publisher=Guilford Press |location=New York | veditors = Cassidy J, Shaver PR |pages=[https://archive.org/details/handbookofattach0000unse/page/3 3–20] |isbn=1-57230-087-6 | vauthors = Cassidy J |url=https://archive.org/details/handbookofattach0000unse/page/3 }}</ref><ref name="Abrams Turner Baumann Karel 2013 pp. 149–155">{{cite book | last1=Abrams | first1=David B. | last2=Turner | first2=J. 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Psychiatrist Stephanie Cacioppo states, "the need for love might be less immediate than the need to avoid danger, but it is by no means a luxury",<ref>{{Cite web |title=Are We Hard-Wired for Love? {{!}} Psychology Today |url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/am-i-right/202210/are-we-hard-wired-for-love |access-date=2025-03-16 |website=www.psychologytoday.com |language=en-US}}</ref> vaguely placing love neither as a complete need or want, but in between. Professor Ingrid V. Albrecht suggests that "love participates in a unique form of practical necessity, different from both moral and psychological necessity, yet bearing resemblances to each." It is further described as "an engagement with a person as essentially particular, rather than as an instance of a rational agent in general." Ingrid's view suggests that morality or rationality are not the limiting factors of love, but that love is its own distinct need independent of those factors.<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Albrecht |first=Ingrid |title=Love, self-constitution, and practical necessity |date=2013-02-03 |publisher=University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |url=https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/items/42234}}</ref>

Psychologist [[Abraham Maslow]] places love near the middle of the [[Maslow's hierarchy of needs|hierarchy of needs]]. In his model, love is a [[drive theory|driving factor]] of [[human behavior]] that a person necessitates to fulfill their psychological needs. For many people, it is usually prioritized after one's physiological and safety needs are met.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Maslow |first=Abraham H.|year=1943 |title=A theory of human motivation|journal=Psychological Review| volume=50| issue=4| pages=370–396|via=psychclassics.yorku.ca|url=http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Maslow/motivation.htm|doi=10.1037/h0054346|hdl=10983/23610|citeseerx=10.1.1.334.7586 |access-date=March 13, 2007|archive-date=September 14, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914183817/http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Maslow/motivation.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Maslow |first=Abraham H. |url=https://archive.org/details/motivationperson00masl_0 |title=Motivation and personality |publisher=Harper |year=1954 |isbn=978-0-06-041987-5 |location=New York, NY |url-access=registration}}</ref>