I think the problem with talking about "love" is that it may mean entirely different things to different people, so that no two are exactly the same. Their personality types may be similar and thus their forms of expression may line up. But really, it's a basket of emotions whose contents varies, and it's also very culturally influenced. I remember reading a few years ago the results of a study that looked at how often parents touched their children, and among cooler cultures it might be once or twice and hour and among warmer ones, every 2-3 minutes. I imagine if you swapped the kids and parents of those cultures, there would be a lot of distress involved in terms of how their behavior was interpreted.
I thought this was curious: But most often we see Sam's love not as something that comes spontaneously from Sam, but as a response to Dean
I wasn't clear how you could see Sam's feelings as something that were reactive specifically to Dean, and not Dean's as something that were equally reactive. I think, for example, if one looks at Dean's feelings about his parents their origin becomes a lot clearer.
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Date: 2010-10-26 02:16 am (UTC)I thought this was curious:
But most often we see Sam's love not as something that comes spontaneously from Sam, but as a response to Dean
I wasn't clear how you could see Sam's feelings as something that were reactive specifically to Dean, and not Dean's as something that were equally reactive. I think, for example, if one looks at Dean's feelings about his parents their origin becomes a lot clearer.