love and hate; mixed feelings of love and hatred
Refers to the coexistence of love and hate, often in complex emotional relationships. Common in literary and psychological contexts.
His mixed feelings of love and hate toward her tormented him.
The protagonist's psychology, wavering between love and hate, is depicted.
She harbored mixed feelings of love and hate toward her former lover.
There was a complicated feeling of intertwined love and hate between the two of them.