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Agape

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Self-sacrificing, spiritual love that looks out for the interests and well-being of others; a selfless, enduring, other-centered type of love that provides intrinsic satisfaction with no reciprocity expected or demanded

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Agape Love

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A love type that provides intrinsic satisfaction, with no reciprocity expected or demanded, inherent to agape love is patience, kindness, and permanence

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Altruistic Love

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An unselfish, giving kind of love.

Most of us do not feel the need to reciprocate altruistic love because the rewards are intrinsic

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Anxious/Ambivalent Attachment Types

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Insecurity is the hallmark of this attachment type. Fearing for the partner’s love, anxious/ambivalent adults cling to the partner and push for commitment—often pushing the partner away

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Attachment

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An emotional or affectional bond that binds the child to a parent or primary caregiver

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Attachment Theory

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John Bowlby’s Attachment theory describes enduring patterns of interpersonal relationships from cradle to grave. With the premise that all newborns must be nurtured in order to survive, Bowlby observed that they form a type of bond—an attachment—with their caregivers. From this close affectional and emotional bond, children derive a sense of security, a trusting sense that the world is a safe place to be

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Avoidant Attachment Types

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Avoidant adults show discomfort with intimacy and are hesitant to trust others. Avoidant types report that they seldom find “real” love

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Breakup Costs

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Emotional and financial costs of a breakup, and the search cost necessary to find another love

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Breakup Risk

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A relationship cost that includes determining the lover’s future overall benefit with the individual, the lover’s future net benefit with another lover, and the lover’s current breakup costs. If these costs are considered high, the risk of being “dumped” is relatively low

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Commitment

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Refers to loving another person as a conscious act of will—it is a deliberate choice. Commitment can thus be thought of as the cognitive component in a love relationship

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Companionate Love

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Deep, tender, mature, affectionate attachment bonds shared between two people; companionate love may or may not include feelings of physical arousal

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Consummate Love

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to be total, whole, absolute, and all-inclusive.

This type of love combines all three elements of love—intimacy, commitment, and passion. Some may attain this type of relationship, but not without nurturing and working to maintain the relationship.

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Cyber-Stalking

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Online Stalking

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Dependent Love

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Love between an adult and an infant or child, wherein the adult meets and gratifies the needs of the infant or child without expectation of anything in return

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Elopment

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Secret marriages between two love partners that take place without parental approval and/or knowledge

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Emotional Needs

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Self-esteem, social and spiritual needs, and safety

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Empty Love

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This type of love is void of passion and intimacy. Commitment is the only element in the relationship

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Entertainment Needs

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Social aspects of day-to-day living and family life (hobbies, interests, etc.)

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Eros

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Sensual or sexual love

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Erotic lovers

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People who are passionate and romantic and seek out passionately expressive lovers

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Fatuous

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A descriptive term referring to infatuation-based relationships

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Fatuous love

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Combining passion and commitment, fatuous love relationships result in a sprint toward cohabitation or marriage. Because the relationship lacks intimacy to grow and develop, and because passion will fade sooner or later, the only element remaining is commitment

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Genograms

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A diagram with various figures that illustrate relationships between family members

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Incompetent Suitors

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Stalkers who have poor social and emotional skills and have difficult expressing themselves

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Infatuated Love
The type of love consist of passion only; "Hollywood" marriages are made of this, but not long-term marriages
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Infatuation
An intense, extravagant, and often short-lived passion for another person, often confused with love
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Interdependent Love
The ability for people to be dependent and have someone depend on them. Interdependent love is expressed between emotionally mature adults who recognize that love is a give-and-take process
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Intergenerational Approach to Family Therapy
An approach seeking to understand the transmission of relational behaviors from one generation to the next
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Intimacy Seekers
Stalkers who want to establish an intimate, loving relationship with their victim
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Intrinsic Rewards
Rewards that are pleasurable in and out of themselves, such as joy, satisfaction, contentment, pleasure, and gratification
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Jealousy
An emotional reaction to the perception that a valued relationship is threatened because of a third party
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Liking
Intimacy is the sole element in the relationship and is the stuff that great, long-lasing friendships are made of. There is typically no passion or commitment
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Love Economic Model
Chau Vuong's Love Economic model is based on the primary assumption that people are rational decision makers and, as a result, are able to tally up both the benefits and costs of falling in love and being in love. Vuong further contends that "sex and commitment are the only difference between friendship and love."
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Love Maps
A mental blueprint of the "ideal" love relationship, which is shaped by our experiences with love in infancy and early childhood and by our parents' and primary cargivers' attitudes toward love and sexuality
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Love Stories
Our unique, personal experiences with love
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Ludic Lovers
People who don't care as much about commitment as they do about playing the sport or the game of love
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Ludus
Love that is playful, flirtatious, carefree, and casual
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Maintenance Costs
Emotional costs and time costs involved in finding the right person
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Manic Lovers
Jealousy, envy, protectiveness, and exclusively are the hallmark traits of manic lovers. Manic love is frenzied, agitated, hectic, and chaotic all at the same time
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Materialistic Needs
The primary needs required for survival and happiness, including food, water, shelter, and transportation
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Mutual Dependency
A couple's reliance on one another for need fulfillment, such as socially and sexually
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Nonlove
The absence of intimacy, commitment, and passion. Nonlove may exist in a relationship where physical, emotional, or sexual violence is present
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Passion
the physical attraction and romantic feelings that initially draw us to another person
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Passionate Love
A wildly powerful emotion experienced as intense longing for the selected love object, along with profound sexual arousal and confused feelings
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Personality Need Fulfillment
An established pattern of mutual exchanges of support, sympathy, and decision-making. Each person also satisfies his or her partner's deeper emotional and sexual needs
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Philos
Brotherly love, used to describe the affectionate feelings shared between friends and family
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Polyamory
The practice of intimate relationships with more than one partner with all partners' consent
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Pragma Love
Practically and logic guide the pragmatic lover; the costs and benefits associated with love are carefully weighed and considered before entering into a relationship
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Predatory Stalkers
Stalkers who spy on the victim in order to plan a sexual attack
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Prototype
A model. Researcher Beverly Fehr asked her study sample to free write various features or attributes they assigned to "love." The list provided a prototype of love
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Rapport
A connection or bond we feel with another person
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Reiss's Wheel Theory of Love
Sociologist Ira Reiss described love as a developmental process that unfolds over time, with four stages: rapport, self-revelation, mutual dependency, and personality need fulfillment. Similar to a rolling wheel, these stages of love may be experienced many times and, in turn, deepen the love bonds between partners
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Rejected Stalkers
Stalkers who want to reverse, correct, or avenge rejection of their affections, infatuation, or love
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Rejection Costs
Include: - Rejection sensitivity (anxiety, lowered self-esteem) - Immunity to rejection (frequency of past rejections) - Emotional cost of the rejection
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Resentful Stalkers
Stalkers who are out for vengeance because they believed they were wronged by their victim
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Retroactive Jealousy
A type of jealousy that occurs when a romantic partner is bother by their partner's past romantic or sexual relationships
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Rewards
The benefits (the payback, profit, compensations) are exchanged in a social relationship to reinforce behavior and increase the likelihood that the behavior will occur again. Offered consistently, relationship rewards such as nurture, appreciation, trust, and making/seeing the other person happy develop a strong sense of liking in a relationship. Essentially, whatever attributes a person on his or her prototype list are her or his perceived rewards in the relationship
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Romantic Infatuation
A type of infatuation that is often referred to as romantic love. "A foolish, unreasoning, or extravagant passion or attraction" "An object of extravagant short-lived passion" Romantic infatuation involves a complicated, often overpowering, blend of emotion and sexuality
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Romantic Love
Intimacy and passion comprise romantic love. Because of the accompanying physical and/or sexual attraction and arousal, it is a more intense form of love than liking
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Search Cost
Include our attractiveness, or our ability to attract potential partners, along with social networking skills
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Secure Attachment Styles
Secure adults, like securely attached infants, have little difficulty seeking or maintaining closeness with another. They don't fear being abandoned or losing their partner
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Self-Revelation
When we feel comfortable in another person's presence, we feel more comfortable self-disclosing our personal hopes, dreams, fears, and goals
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Simple Infatuation
Physical attraction that is often accompanied by emotion-filled daydreams and fantasies about someone, perhaps an actor or actress, a pop star or singing idol, or even a teacher
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Stalking
The obsessive following, observing, or contacting of another person, or the obsessive attempt to engage in any of these activities
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Storge
Friendship love, or a type of affectionate love between companions
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Storgic Lovers
People who typically come to love each other over time, as opposed to the instantaneous type of love found with eros lovers
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Triangular Theory of Love
Robert Sternberg's theory conceptualizes eight different types of love relationships. These relationships take into account that each individual will experience many types of love throughout live

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