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WMN sequences (1):

WMN ID: FLB_143

Context: Spoken interaction

WMN Type: WMN: disagreement

WMN Meaning: both

Trigger words: love (4)

Indicator sentences: I 've never heard love here defined as I would as the totally unconditional love that happens between a woman and a child , probably from the moment of birth that bonds them through life , that 's the only love that I could ever admit to .

Negotiation parts: That 's two different kinds of love though then , love , loving your neighbour I suppose is the widest sense and er and the love between a parent and child , are those more recognisable as , as true love if you like than the kind of romantic love , sexual love that we 've been talking about , yesThird kind of love , a bit more flippant , love of chocolate which I was , which I was very worried about because I was told it was a substitute for sexand then I read this amazing article which said no its completely the other way around , sex is when you , you get sex when you do n't get enough chocolate .I 'm beginning to wonder if we need more words for love , I mean if , if love is the only word we have for chocolate erfor your fellow man , for your child and for your , for your partner , is there a prosody of vocabulary here .I , er I was gon na spring another type of love because we all spend a lot of money on it , the love of pets of animalsmm , mmand there 's a lot of er of what people even leave their , their fortunes to look after some animal and they do n't leave it to people like er the lady sitting here who are , folk , folk are starving , but then its because people are needed and people are needed by their children , but there also needed by their men folk and I think its when they turn to being a mother to their men that , you know , even the , the love that they have , er whether its been a sexual love at one time , er friendly love becomes a very caring love and er I think that 's what we all remember erm those of us who have lost our husbands , that would like to have that , that part back againmm , mmof being needed , and being er allowed to care for someoneup thereI think the mother and child love is n't always pleasant and I think that 's quite worrying to some mother 's if they ca n't love their child in the way that people expect them to .Sheena , can I be the odd one out and say I 've been in love with one man for forty five years , I have n't heard any body saying any thing very nice about that , I would like to say its wonderful .oh IHere , herethere , here , here they , they , a lot of them say , I do n't know if you are the odd one out I mean there areNo I quite agree , I also agree with the lady who said that one of the important things is that you like the person , I well speaking from experience , I started out liking somebodymm , mmfor whom that I had to decide whether I was going to marry him or give him up and decided I could n't give him up so I married him and was extremely happy and was shattered when he died and I , I , a , it went from you know I , I never real , thought I would be as happy , could be as happy as I wasmmer , but I quite agree one person er there 's nothing , nothing greater .Yeah I 'm , I 'm interested that that so many of you go from love to marriage as er swiftly as the horse and carriage similarly would suggest , I mean it , every one 's experience of love is , is different , every body here is , we 've been talking about love between er men and women , but there 's also love between women and women which we have n't talked about at all . Do you think society er smiles on all forms of love or do you think some kinds of love and loving are , are actually seen as being lesser than others there , there seems to be less sympathetic for er I mean , yes