What is a love-as-journey metaphor?

What is a love-as-journey metaphor?

Definition
	A conventional metaphor in which love is represented as a journey, thus highlighting the aspects of purpose, progress, and problems in the love relationship.

Examples
	Here are some examples in English:
	We'll just have to go our separate ways. I don't think this relationship is going anywhere. It's been a long, bumpy road. Our marriage is on the rocks. This relationship is foundering.

Generic
	A love-as-journey metaphor is a kind of
	What is a metaphor for love?

Sources
	Kovecses 1986, Lakoff, G. and Johnson 1980

Context for this page:

Concept module: love-as-journey metaphor
In modular book: Metaphors in English, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H. Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
In bookshelf: Lexicon

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