To interpret the table below you need to know:

• Each descriptor of love was rated on a seven point scale from "Not Important in my view of love" to "Very Important in my view of love"--Higher scores mean that people rated that item as more important in their view of love.
• Factor loadings may range from -1 to +1 and can be considered correlations between each item and the factor.
• I sorted the loading by each column, bolded factor loadings .3 or greater, and then sorted the table by loadings on factor 1 in descending order. I then sorted the remaining items with factor scores less than .3 on factor 1 in descending order by their loadings on factor 2. I then sorted the remaining items with factor scores less than .3 on factor 2 in descending order by their loadings on factor 3.

Principle Components, Varimax rotation, on the transformed items.

Item	Factor 1	Factor 2
Supportiveness	0.67	0.13
Caring	0.65	0.15
Helping	0.63	0.24
Sharing	0.63	0.23
Compassion	0.62	0.20
Kindness	0.62	0.15
Concern for each other's well being	0.61	0.11
Comforting each other	0.61	0.26
Patience	0.60	0.10
Understanding	0.60	0.14
Wanting the best for each other	0.60	0.13
Forgiveness	0.59	0.11
Responsibility	0.58	0.12
Giving	0.57	0.25
Commitment	0.57	0.08
Devotion	0.57	0.27
Respect	0.57	0.02
Loyalty	0.56	0.09
Unconditional caring	0.55	0.19
Openness	0.55	0.10
Trust	0.55	-0.03
Honesty	0.53	-0.03
Willingness to sacrifice	0.53	0.26
Closeness	0.50	0.30
Doing things for each other	0.50	0.37
Security	0.50	0.29
Friendship	0.49	-0.02
A positive outlook	0.49	0.29
Interest in each other	0.49	0.28
Confidence that it will be long-lasting	0.47	0.26
Empathy	0.47	0.19
Contentment	0.46	0.30
Being able to talk about anything	0.45	0.13
Liking	0.44	0.16
Accepting each other as is	0.43	0.12
Putting the other person first	0.43	0.30
Affection	0.42	0.37
Admiration	0.41	0.42
Feeling relaxed	0.40	0.27
Confidence that our feelings are Mutual	0.39	0.29
Feeling attachment	0.37	0.43
Having warm feelings	0.37	0.49
Wanting to be with each other	0.36	0.45
Needing each other	0.36	0.50
Protectiveness	0.35	0.42
Happiness	0.35	0.33
Feeling good about myself	0.34	0.23
Interdependency	0.34	0.34
Missing each other when apart	0.32	0.52
Laughing	0.31	0.25
Feeling important	0.31	0.45
Increased heart rate	0.03	0.69
Excitement	0.15	0.66
Butterflies in my stomach	0.01	0.64
Euphoria	0.10	0.64
Gazing at each other	0.16	0.62
Thinking about each other all the time	0.21	0.61
Having wonderful feelings	0.28	0.61
Feelings of Sex appeal	0.00	0.59
Sexual passion	0.00	0.56
Physical attraction	-0.05	0.53
Energy	0.23	0.52
Touching	0.15	0.46
Scary feelings	0.07	0.46
Seeing only my partner's good qualities	0.11	0.43
Uncertainty	0.07	0.41
Intimacy	0.25	0.35
Having a lot in common	0.21	0.30

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