Personal Relationship Flashcards
Involves the act of relating and allowing person to connect with others
Personal Relationships
Types of Relationships:
- parents and family
- friendship and peers
- romantic relationship
- casual relationship
whom you join only once in a while or occasionally (type of friendship)
acquaintances
where you share same interests through regular interactions (type of friendship)
companions
where you give and receive opinions and supports (type of friendship)
intimates or best friends
types of friendships:
- acquaintances
- companions
- intimates or best friends
type of relationship without a real and defined sense of seriousness and commitment
casual relationship
relating with the element and taste of romance (type of relationship)
romantic relationship
what are the 3 phases in romantic relationship:
- discovery of interest
- dating
- commitment
who invented the 3 phases of romantic relationship?
Sternberg (2011)
it is one of the phases of romantic relationship where you are getting to know someone you might want to have a romantic relationship with.
Discovery of Interest
it is one of the phases of romantic relationship where it is a way of dating and getting to know each other better.
dating
it is one of the phases of romantic relationship where teenagers focus on how to survive and grow in their relationships with others.
commitment
what are the three dynamics of romantic relationships:
- attraction
- love
- commitment
it is one of the dynamics of romantic relationship that refers to the act, process, or power of attracting and evoking interest , pleasure, or liking for someone
attraction
two forms of attraction:
- crush
- courtship
it is one of the dynamics of romantic relationship where you are in love or being happy or being on cloud nine, or living in a dream land.
Love
For sternberg, it is a cognitive process. it happens in the mind and is a conscious effort or decision to love another person.
Commitment
Love as Triangle:
- intimacy
- passion
- decision/commitment
feeling of closeness and connected in relationship
intimacy
feeling of romance, physical attraction, and sexual arousal in relationship
passion
short term or long term
decision / commitment
kinds of love according to robert sternberg:
- liking
- romantic love
- consummate love
- companionate love
- infatuation
- fatuous love
- empty love
casual, everyday interactions that do not include love at all
Nonlove
feelings of friendship, involves only intimacy component
liking
Love at first sight can happen quickly but can also fade away just as fast.
infatuated
one is commited to love someone, but both the intimacy and passion are absent
empty love
liking and being physically attracted to someone
romantic
stable, long term marriages, and can last a lifetime
companionate
commitment is based on passion, but the relationship isn’t stable because there is no intimacy
fatuous
a kind of love many of us aspire for in romantic relationship
consummate
“a loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself - to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.”
Leo F. Buscaglia
