Personal Love, Loyalty, and Malignant Breakdown

Loyalty in personal love is an integrity-enabling capacity responsive to a limited range of stress factors bearing on the trust relation between lover and beloved. Sometimes this involves only the interests of the lover and the beloved, but at other times it involves the interests of third parties. When it does involve third parties, the agent might care about the third party in a number of ways, which might include personal love, respect, and sympathy, or the agent might be indifferent, even hostile to the third party. The thought here is that when an agent fails in loyalty, as opposed