What do Eros, Ludus, Storge, Pragma, Mania, and Agape mean?

Each style is scored from three or four statements, and a high score reflects: Eros: early chemistry, emotional closeness, idealizing a partner; Ludus: enjoying the chase, open options, low dependence, some privacy; Storge: love growing from friendship and shared routines; Pragma: checking values and long-term goals before committing; Mania: preoccupation, jealousy, mood swings, chasing attention; Agape: a partner’s needs first, even at a cost.

Can you have more than one love style?

Love styles usually come in combinations. When researchers grouped 823 Spanish adults by their scores, they found four recurring mixes, such as high Storge with low Ludus, rather than six pure types (García del Castillo-López et al., 2025). Read your low scores too: low Ludus points to valuing openness and exclusivity.

Are Mania and Ludus unhealthy love styles?

Neither is a disorder: no love style appears in the DSM-5-TR. The concern starts at the extremes, when Ludus-style privacy becomes deception or Mania-style jealousy becomes control. Thoughts about someone you can’t switch off are closer to what a limerence test measures.

Is a high Eros score a sign of infatuation?

A high Eros score measures a general tendency in how you fall for people, so it can’t judge one current attraction. In Neto and Pinto’s 2025 study, Eros went with more commitment and greater love-life satisfaction. To weigh your feelings for one specific person, a love or infatuation quiz asks about that relationship directly.

Can your love style be different with a different partner?

Clyde and Susan Hendrick built a relationship-specific version of their scale because love styles can differ from one partner to the next. Most statements here mention a partner, so you likely answered with one person in mind. Retake the love styles test thinking of another relationship: the styles that stay high both times are the stable core of your profile.

What if your partner has a different love style?

Different profiles mostly mean different expectations, which are easier to discuss once you’ve both taken the test. Say you score high on Storge and your partner on Eros: your steady, low-key affection may read as distance to them, while their intensity may feel rushed to you. If the same argument keeps coming back, couples counselors work on exactly this kind of gap.

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Love Styles Test Framework: The Color Wheel Theory of Love

Sociologist John Alan Lee compared ways of loving to colors in 1973: three primary styles that mix into three secondary ones, the way paint does. Clyde and Susan Hendrick later turned his color wheel into the Love Attitudes Scale (1986).

Primary styles

Eros
Ludus
Storge

Secondary styles

Mania: Eros + Ludus
Pragma: Ludus + Storge
Agape: Storge + Eros

Lee-Hendrick Love Attitudes Methodology

The items were written for this educational self-assessment from constructs studied in the Love Attitudes Scale and its short form; they are not the published scales themselves. The test measures six romantic love orientations in adults. Self-report can shift with a current relationship, recent experiences, interpretation, and cultural context. Results describe attitudes at one point in time. They do not diagnose a mental health condition, judge relationship safety, or predict compatibility.

Anonymous Love-Style Data Handling

Your final six-score profile is calculated on your device. Personal data and individual answers are never collected or stored as identifiable records. Only the final numerical profile is retained in strictly anonymized form for aggregate statistical panels used to evaluate and improve the tool, and it cannot be linked back to you.

Six-Style Love Profile Scoring

Each statement is rated from 1 to 5. Three reverse-keyed items are recoded, then responses are averaged within the six love styles. Higher subscale scores mean stronger endorsement; lower scores mean weaker endorsement. There is no valid 20-100 total or clinical cutoff. Results are educational, not diagnostic. A licensed therapist can help interpret a result that raises questions.

Psychometric Research Supporting Love Styles

Lee, J. A. (1977). A Typology of Styles of Loving Foundational peer-reviewed description of six distinguishable styles of romantic love.
Hendrick, C., Hendrick, S. S., & Dicke, A. (1998). The Love Attitudes Scale: Short Form Validation of shorter Love Attitudes Scale subscales across three studies with more than 2,700 participants.
Neto, F., & Pinto, M. da C. (2025). Correlates of the Short Form Love Attitudes Scale among Portuguese People Adult validation supporting the six-factor Eros, Ludus, Storge, Pragma, Mania, and Agape structure.
Feybesse, C., Forthmann, B., Neto, F., Holling, H., & Hatfield, E. (2024). Measuring Love Around the World: A Cross-Cultural Reliability Generalization Reliability analysis covering 79 studies, 32,867 participants, and 33 countries.

Love Styles vs. Love Languages vs. Attachment Styles

Some quizzes publish love-language results under the “love styles” name, yet the three frameworks answer different questions:

Framework	What it describes	The question behind it
Love styles (John Alan Lee)	Your attitudes toward romance itself, scored across six styles	How do you tend to love?
Love languages (Gary Chapman)	How you prefer to give and receive affection: words, quality time, gifts, acts of service, touch	What makes you feel loved?
Attachment styles (Hazan and Shaver)	How secure, anxious or avoidant you feel when you depend on someone	How do you react when someone gets close or pulls away?

If your question is about affection or closeness, the love language quiz and the test for anxious or avoidant attachment answer it better.

Frequently Asked Questions About Your Love Style Quiz Results

Six separate scores raise questions a single label never would, especially when Mania runs high or a partner’s love style profile looks nothing like yours.

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