Parental love is the one form of love that most people would die for without hesitation, and yet it is also the love most burdened by expectation, projection, and the weight of what a child represents to the parent. It contains all four of the Greek loves at once — storge's familial affection, philia's deep knowing, agape's unconditional commitment, and something of eros in the love of the self extended beyond itself. This domain examines parental love in its full complexity without sentimentalizing it.
Each step builds on the last.