Test 2: Love and Communication Flashcards
What is Love?
Feeling, Activity
Communication is the thread that connects…
Sexuality and intimacy; quality affects the relationship and sex
Love tends to have more fascination and exclusiveness with…
Partners; Friendship is foundation for a strong love and relationship
Friend and lovers relationships both have:
Trust, Acceptance, Respect, Confiding, Understanding, Spontaneity
Factors that lead to couples having sex:
Enhance relationship, Meaning fulfilling of closeness, Increase relationship satisfaction, Increase love and commitment for relationship
Love without Sex
Celibacy, Asexuality
Celibacy
Absence from sexual activity; May report a better appreciation of friendship or free up energy for personal growth
Asexuality
Little or no sexual attraction to either sex
John Lee: 6 basic styles of love
Mania, Ludus, Stoge, Agape, Pragma, Eros
Mania
Obsessive and Possessive Love
Ludus
Playful Love
Stoge
Love without fever; Peaceful and Enchanting Affection; usually begins as friendship and deepens to love
Adape
Brotherly love, more abstract and ideal
Pragma
Pragmatic Lovers: Business like in their approach to looking for someone who meets their needs (use logic to meet partner)
Eros
Love of Beauty: Erotic lover, Burn bright but burn quick
Triangular Theory of Love
Developed by Steinberg (1986); dynamic quality of love relationships
Love is composed of 3 elements each element can enlarged or decrease in the cause of the relationship:
Intimacy, Passion, Commitment
Intimacy
Warm close bond feeling