THERE has been lots of talk on the subject of “love”. I was brought up to believe that love was not just a singularity, that it has many facets, some say one love covers all. I suggest they are in error.

Love for mothers and fathers differ from love for brothers and sisters, and is different again for aunts and uncles. It changes for cousins and for other family members, friends, neighbours and the wider world, all have different facets of love.

But there is one love unlike any other that is the love between a man and a woman which has an intimacy to it, which other loves should not have, and be kept within marriage and nowhere else. It is written that a man should take a wife and they shall become as one.

They were first meant to be companions to establish a strong relationship for two reasons, one that any children born would have a stable background, and two if some found they could not have children, that calls for a warm, caring understanding love. Some think the urge for sex is the be-all and end-all of love, it is not. “Wham, bam, thank you ma’am”, is shallow and counts very little towards a meaningful loving relationship.

Grenville Moore Melbourne Road Bolton