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Robert Sternberg's triangular theory views love as including passion,
, and commitment. Lee, Hendrick, and Hendrick identify three primary love styles:
, ludus, and storge, which can combine to form secondary love styles.
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love is a state of intense longing for union with another. Such love often includes both elation and gloom, exhilaration and misery. The two-factor theory of emotion states that emotions are created by the label we give to
. Thus any arousal can intensify passionate feelings provided one can attribute some of the arousal to a
stimulus.
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Cultures vary in the importance placed on
love. Studies of men and women have also found that
tend to fall in love more readily.
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love is the affection we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply intertwined. Such love thrives when a relationship is
and mutually rewarding. Companionate love is most likely to endure when both partners feel it to be
in that both receive from the relationship in proportion to what they have contributed to it.
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Intimacy is fostered by reciprocal
in which we drop our masks and gradually let ourselves be known as we are. Couples who most reveal themselves to one another tend to express
satisfaction with their relationship.
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Researchers and the public are divided about whether computers and the
foster intimacy or
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Divorce risk is lower for those who marry after age
, are well-
, and are
committed. As an alternative to divorce, some people cope with a failing relationship by exhibiting
, optimistically waiting for conditions to improve. Others passively allow the relationship to deteriorate. Still others
their concerns and take active steps to improve the relationship.
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