I do personally feel that there is some emotional core to love, so I’m sympathetic to the “it’s a specific emotion” definition.
The definition of love as an emotion seems wrong to me, because emotions are short-lived. Intuitively, we think of statements like “I love my son” as being true all the time. But I do not experience an emotion of “love” towards him all the time. When I am away from him, hours can pass where I do not think of him at all, and when I am with him I sometimes feel an emotion of annoyance rather than “love”.
So this kind of definition does not seem to match how people use the concept.
The definition of love as an emotion seems wrong to me, because emotions are short-lived. Intuitively, we think of statements like “I love my son” as being true all the time. But I do not experience an emotion of “love” towards him all the time. When I am away from him, hours can pass where I do not think of him at all, and when I am with him I sometimes feel an emotion of annoyance rather than “love”.
So this kind of definition does not seem to match how people use the concept.