Affectionate love | The type of love where a person desires to have the other person near and has a deep affection for the other
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Becoming parents and a family with children | The third stage in the family life cycle, where adults move up a generation and become caregivers to the younger generation
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Consensual validation | We are attracted to people similar to ourselves; our attitudes/behaviour are validated
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Family at mid-life | The fifth stage in the family life cycle, where launching children, linking generations, and adapting to mid-life changes occur
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Family in later life | The sixth/final stage in family life cycle; involves retirement and often grandparenting
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Family with adolescents | The fourth stage in family life cycle; adolescent children push for autonomy
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Friendship | A form of close relationship that involves enjoyment, trust, mutual assistance, and confiding
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Individuated-connected level | The highest level of relationship maturity in Whites model, where one is acquiring an understanding of oneself as well as consideration for others motivations and anticipation of their needs
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Launching | The process in which youths move into adulthood and exit their family of origin
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Leaving home and becoming a single adult | The first stage in the family life cycle, which involves launching
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New couple | The second stage in the family life cycle, where two individuals from separate families unite
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Role-focused level | The second level in White's model of relationship maturity; others seen in their own right
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Romantic love | "Passionate love"; has strong sexual and infatuation components
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Self-focused level | The first level of relationship maturity in Whites model, when ones perspective of a relationship is concerned only with how it affects oneself
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Triangular theory of love | Sternbergs theory that love has the three components of passion, intimacy, and commitment
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