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Attraction, Love, and Partnerships
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Learning Objectives

After completing this chapter, you should be able to:

Contrast secure, ambivalent, and avoidant attachment styles.

Explain the factors that attract one person to the another.

List five unrealistic beliefs about romantic relationships.

Explain the basis of infatuation and how infatuation differs from love.

Explain the nature and benefits of intimate relationships.

Explain the behavioral, psychoanalytic, and humanistic views of love.

List and describe John Lee's six love styles.

Contrast passionate love with companionate love.

Explain how culture and gender influence views on love.

Explain Steinberg's "triangle of love."

Describe differences and similarities among gay, lesbian, bisexual, and heterosexual relationships.

Describe relationships between love and honesty and between love and sex.

Explain why some people are unable to love.

Explain the causes of excessive dependency and jealousy destroy relationships.

List the common steps in the disintegration of relationships.

Explain how breakups can be handled to minimize distress for each partner.