This is actually following a recently asked [question on how to say
"for."](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/11869/542)

I thought that saying あなたに私の愛 sounded perfectly fine - "toward you, my love."

However another user changed it to あなたに対する愛, or あなたへの私の愛.

My two problems are:  

  1. Why is あなたに私の愛 wrong? 

  2. When can I write への and can I equivalently write にの?
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への対へ/に-Difference between への and へ/に
**In answer to your first question:**

「に」 can also be used _(at times)_ where you are _receiving_ something from
someone else. Perhaps the user you mentioned was directing you to「へ」as a way
to avoid that possible meaning?

For example, what if「あなたに私{わたし}の愛{あい}」were read as: "my love from you"?
_(Would that make sense?)_ An example of this type of 「に」usage can be found on
[this forum
post](http://www.sf.airnet.ne.jp/ts/japanese/message/jpnE6751u2gE4Ns3bes.html),
and reads: 「彼{かれ}に手紙{てがみ}をもらった。」 _( "I received a letter from him."_)

Also, as far as the phrasing goes, you could also use something simple, like
「あなたへの愛{あい}」 _(because "my" could be inferred within the context of that
phrase.)_

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**In answer to your second question:**

As you have [found in your search from
earlier](http://www.guidetojapanese.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=6809), you can
often use「への」when you want to indicate a slightly more-complicated possessive
(perhaps of a direction,) where a direction ends up becoming a _sort_ of
"noun". For example _(looking at something based on[Cici's
example](http://www.guidetojapanese.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=60353#p60353)
in the link from earlier)_:

> 東京{とうきょう}へ ー to Tokyo
>
> 東京{とうきょう}への行き方は ー the way to Tokyo _(or, "the way to Tokyo's direction")_

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**In answer to your third question:**

As far as using「にの」in place of「への」(for at least cases like the example about
"the way to Tokyo",) it would seem like one could
use「への」and「にの」interchangeably... but [according to this
post](http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail/q1323348673) by
adzusa6543さん, you'll generally want to use「に」when you are talking more about
your final destination itself... and use「へ」when you want to somehow include
the _process_ or _way_ of getting to your destination.
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The point is that あなたに・あなたへ are _adverbial_ , and modify a _verb_ (or a whole
clause), but あなたへの is _adjectival_ , and modifies a _noun_. You should see it
as ((あなたへ)の)私の愛 - that is, への is not really a double-particle, but rather の is
joining onto the end of the adverbial phrase あなたへ, in order to allow it to
modify the noun phrase 私の愛. And so:

  * あなたに私の愛 is an incomplete sentence: it has a noun (私の愛, my love) and an adverby-type prepositional phrase thing (あなたに, towards you), but has no verb. (The noun and the adverb aren't interacting; あなたに 私の愛 is the same thing as 私の愛 あなたに.) To make sense of what あなたに is doing in this half-sentence, I have to guess what the omitted verb will be. (It's not hard to do in _this_ context, of course, but that gives you some idea of why it sounds a little odd.)
  * あなたに対する愛 is a noun phrase: it has a noun (愛, love), and that noun is being modified by a clause (あなたに対する, regarding you / towards you).
  * あなたへの私の愛 is another noun phrase: the root noun is 愛, and it is being modified by two further pieces of information, 私の (my) and あなたへの (towards you).

You can also have での in the same way: "山での火山活動" - but again, this should be
seen as ((山で)の)火山活動.
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