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Chapter 3. Love in Relationships Key Terms. Romantic love Characterized by such beliefs as love at first sight, there is only one true love, and love conquers all Infatuation Passion without intimacy or commitment. Conjugal love
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Chapter 3 Love in Relationships Key Terms
Romantic love • Characterized by such beliefs as love at first sight, there is only one true love, and love conquers all • Infatuation • Passion without intimacy or commitment
Conjugal love • Less emotional, passionate, and exciting than romantic love. Characterized by companionship, calmness, comfort, and security. • Ludic love style • Views love as a game, refuses to become dependent on any one person, and does not encourage another’s intimacy.
Pragma love style • The love of the pragmatic, who is logical and rational. • Eros love style • A love style of passion and romance.
Mania love style • Love style with feelings of intense emotion and sexual passion but is out of control. • Storge love style • Calm, soothing, nonsexual love devoid of intense passion.
Agape love style • Selfless and giving, expecting nothing in return. • Stalking • Repeated, willful, and malicious following or harassment by one person of another.
Extradyadic relationship • Emotional/sexual involvement between a member of a pair and someone other than the partner. • Jealousy • An emotional response to a perceived or real threat to an important or valued relationship.
Polyamory • Persons in polyamorous relationships agree that they will have emotional/sexual relationships with others and seek to rid themselves of jealous feelings and to increase their level of compersion. • Compersion • The situation in which an individual feels positive about a partner’s emotional and sexual enjoyment with another person, the “opposite” of jealousy.