Freud wrote that loving and being loved can be used to achieve a feeling of true happiness and fulfillment in this life. He describes love as “a method of taking firm hold of its objects and obtaining the happiness of an emotional relationship with them” (p. 7). Freud also theorizes that love does not strive to avoid pain, but rather passionately attempts to achieve a positive fulfillment of happiness. Freud specifically mentions sexual love, which “gives us our most intense experience of an overwhelming sensation of pleasure and thus provides a prototype for our efforts toward happiness” (p. 8). By placing love at the center of everything, happiness can be easily found, but at the same time, love comes with a certain vulnerability in an individual and can make a person susceptible to very painful suffering..