Author: Deano

In a word, NO.

Any outside judgment of any given love relationship is moot, so long as that relationship is fully understood and agreed upon by its participants.

The reason for loving someone is functionally immaterial to the act of loving someone; however, it may still prove critically important in negotiating a mutually satisfactory relationship that in which all members communicate their wants and deal breakers.

For example: If your partner is sporting a certain look, his or her health/activity level will prove key in maintaining the relationship: S/he must recognize that. Whether or not s/he will consider it shallow is a value judgment they must make on their own, but if it works for everyone involved, let's just say it works and thank life for its little victories.

Is it shallow to love someone for their looks?

Because how many words do you need for "taco"? 

I mean, it's pretty specific, and you can add all sorts of modifiers:

• fish taco
• chicken taco
• beef taco
• taco supreme
• choco-taco
• etc.

So, between the ability of the English language to heavily "overload" words – with prefixes, suffixes, hyphenates and descriptive adjectives – and the inherent self-expression allowed by choosing a unique combination of toppings and condiment sauces, the single word "taco" can express basically every form of platonic, romantic, or carnal love imaginable.

I only speak English, Japanese, and a smattering of French, though – so I really can't say how common it is for there to be multiple root words for this amazing gastronomical treat across the entire globe.

Why does the English language only have one word for love?

An interesting one few people ever mention – it's much more societally approved to love multiple children, and even to love them in different ways and amounts, than it is to do so romantically. In this way, parent-child love relationships are both uniquely formed and negotiated, and more universally accepted externally for being unique.

What are the differences between romantic and parental love?

I've always held out for my mom to just kick the bucket. But despite a lifelong pack-and-a-fifth-a-day habit, she hangs on to this day. Also, it probably still wouldn't work… That little voice would always be there, doubting my every move.

Probably the only way that will actually work, is to face up to your parent(s), let them know about your fear, and try to work with them to modify both real and perceived expectations between you. In other words, to kill the fear of (or even the actual) disappointment, you need to communicate and manage expectations.

How does one overcome the fear of disappointing one's parents?

Totally feasible, though bound to have wavering accuracy – since there are so many different types of Quora user. I'm actually working on this at the moment as an experiment myself… I think the results will be best for those with a large number of answers, though large number of question will also be useful, given the tagging system.

If you wanted to really nail this, though, you'd need a pretty large test group and data corpus, to help tease of the subtleties of edits and voting and personality type.

Is it feasible to do a MBTI (or big 5) study of Quora users?