This chapter offers an introduction to Simone de Beauvoir’s philosophy of love. In the first section, it focuses on Beauvoir’s explication of romantic love in The Second Sex, focusing on marriage and the ‘woman in love.’ Here, particular attention is paid to the role of freedom in Beauvoir’s understanding of love. It argues that recognition of one’s own freedom and responsibility, the freedom of the beloved, situated freedom, and assuming our ambiguity are all crucial in understanding Beauvoir’s ideas of inauthentic and authentic love. In the second section, a worry is raised that Beauvoir’s ideal of authentic love is incompatible with parental love given her analysis of the situation of the child. To resolve this tension, the chapter argues that emphasizing the child’s freedom-as-transcendence, and the generosity of parental love, offers a glimpse at how authentic parental love might be possible within Beauvoir’s thought.