love-hate
Passionate yet resentful
Love-hate describes a relationship or attitude marked by simultaneous or alternating feelings of affection and hostility: a love-hate relationship with social media, She has a love-hate thing with her mother.
The term captures ambivalence toward something that attracts and repels in equal measure.
Emotionally at odds
- tornPulled into pieces
- ambivalenceConflicting emotions coexisting
- push-pullBidirectional force dynamic
- hot-coldTemperature spectrum poles
bittersweet · complicated · on-again-off-again · fluctuating · vacillating · wavering · unresolved · tension
Previous romantic partner
- frenemyHostile person feigning friendship
- rivalOne who competes against
- siblingBrother or sister
- parentMother or father
boss · nemesis · codependent · toxic · dysfunctional · complicated · entanglement · attachment
Intensely emotional or enthusiastic
- obsessiveConsumed by fixation
- consumingUsing up entirely
- all-or-nothingWithout partial outcomes
- extremeFurthest from moderate
volatile · explosive · fiery · tempestuous · mercurial · unpredictable · dramatic · heightened
conflicted
Emotionally at odds
- tornPulled into pieces
- ambivalenceConflicting emotions coexisting
- push-pullBidirectional force dynamic
hot-cold · bittersweet · complicated · on-again-off-again · fluctuating · vacillating · wavering · unresolved · tension · contradictory
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Previous romantic partner
parent · boss · nemesis · codependent · toxic · dysfunctional · complicated · entanglement · attachment · resentment
passionate
Intensely emotional or enthusiastic
- obsessiveConsumed by fixation
- consumingUsing up entirely
- all-or-nothingWithout partial outcomes
extreme · volatile · explosive · fiery · tempestuous · mercurial · unpredictable · dramatic · heightened · overwhelming
- relationshipsfriends, romantic, family, friend, flirting
- oppositesopposite, opposites, antonym, antonyms, inverse
- hyphenated wordsup-to-date, pitch-black, jaw-dropping, round-the-clock, air-conditioned
- indecisionindecision, indecisiveness, conflicted, hesitation, indecisive
- mixed emotionsmixed emotions, mixed feelings, ambivalence, bittersweet, inner conflict
- emotionsjoy, anger, fear, sadness, happy
love-hateindifferent
Lacking interest or concern
apathetic · indifference · neutral · dispassionate · uncaring
love-hateunwavering
Steady and unchanging
unconditional love · steadfast · pure love · consistent · wholehearted
love-hateindifference
Lack of interest
apathy · indifferent · detachment · disinterest · unconcern
love, hate, loving, hatred, loved, lover, beloved, hateful, hated