Psychology

The word "love" often just means "like", for example, when you say, "I love wine." What I want to take up here is not such a love as a liking. The love as a liking is not equal to love for things as distinct from that for humans. Those who treat the opposite sex as a mere object to have sex with have a love as a liking like wine lovers. What distinguishes the love in the narrow sense from the love as a liking, then?