People can be motivated to date each other for a variety of reasons, both healthy and unhealthy. People are social beings who desire the companionship of others and feel lonely without it. People are sexual beings who crave sexual relationships and the physical warmth of another body. People are romantic and spiritual beings who wish to care for other people and to be cared for by other people. People are also drawn to the intensity, drama and excitement that accompanies new relationships. Some people feel incomplete and inadequate as single people, and are drawn towards dating so they can feel more legitimate and less ashamed of themselves. Still others look for a sort of salvation in relationships with other people that they may or may not be able to find. Some or all of these motives, and more still, are likely occurring in the typical person who is interested in dating.

a casual relationship on the opposite end of the love spectrum. In a "non-love" relationship, there exists no intimacy, passion, or commitment. This may be a friendship.

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