Editing Love (section)

===Storag the empathy bond ===
[[Storge]] (''[[storgē]]'', [[Ancient Greek|Greek]]: [[wikt:στοργή#Ancient Greek|στοργή]]) is liking someone through the fondness of familiarity, family members or people who relate in familiar ways that have otherwise found themselves bonded by chance. An example is the natural love and affection of a parent for their child. It is described as the most natural, emotive, and widely diffused of loves: It is natural in that it is present without coercion, emotive because it is the result of fondness due to familiarity, and most widely diffused because it pays the least attention to those characteristics deemed "valuable" or worthy of love and, as a result, is able to transcend most discriminating factors. Lewis describes it as a dependency-based love which risks extinction if the needs cease to be met.

Affection, for Lewis, included both Need-love and Gift-love. He considered it responsible for nine-tenths of all solid and lasting human happiness.<ref>Lewis, pp.&nbsp;50, 66</ref>

However, affection's strength is also what makes it vulnerable.  Affection has the appearance of being "built-in" or "ready made", says Lewis, and as a result, people come to expect it irrespective of their behaviour and its natural consequences.<ref>Lewis, pp.&nbsp;50–52</ref> Both in its Need and its Gift form, affection then is liable to "go bad", and to be corrupted by such forces as jealousy, ambivalence and smothering.<ref>Hooper, pp. 370–371</ref>