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Understanding Friendship, Love, and Intimacy in Relationships

Explore the different aspects of companionship, commitment, homogamy, and various types of love in relationships. Learn about the triangular theory of love, attachment theory, rejection sensitivity, unrequited love, stalking, and reactive jealousy.

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Understanding Friendship, Love, and Intimacy in Relationships

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  1. Chapter 5 Friendship, Love, and IntimacyKey Terms

  2. Companionate MarriageA marriage wherein spouses were to be each other’s best friends, confidants, and romantic partners. Love was the foundation upon which marriage was built and the criterion by which spouses were chosen.

  3. Homogamy The tendency to marry people much like oneself. • CommitmentReflects the stable factors, including not only love but also obligations and social pressure, that help maintain a relationship, for better or for worse.

  4. Co-ruminationExcessive disclosure or sharing of personal problems— as in either discussing the same problem repeatedly, speculating about problems, mutually encouraging each other to talk about problems and, generally, “focusing on negative feelings”. • Peer marriageA relationship built on principles of equity, equality and deep friendship.

  5. ErosErotic lovers delight in the tactile, the sensual, the immediate; they are attracted to beauty. Their love burns brightly but soon flickers and dies. • LudusFor ludic lovers, love is something to play at rather than to become deeply involved in.

  6. StorgeLove between companions. It usually begins as friendship and then gradually deepens into love. If the love ends, it also occurs gradually, and the couple often become friends once again. • Mania For manic lovers, the slightest sign of affection brings ecstasy for a short while, only to have it disappear. Manic love is rollercoaster love.

  7. AgapeLove that is chaste, patient, selfless, and undemanding; it does not expect to be reciprocated. • PragmaPragmatic lovers look for a partner who has the background, education, personality, religion, and interests that are compatible with their own. If they meet a person who meets their criteria, erotic or manic feelings may develop.

  8. Triangular theory of loveComposed of three elements that can be visualized as the points of a triangle: intimacy, passion, and decision/commitment. • Attachment theory of loveMaintains that the degree and quality of attachments we experience in early life influence our later relationships.

  9. Rejection sensitivityThe tendency to anticipate and overreact to rejection. Individuals who develop rejection sensitivity seek to avoid rejection by their partners and closely monitor, even overanalyze, the relationship dynamics for signs of potential rejection.

  10. Unrequited love Love that is not returned. • StalkingOne person pursues another seeking an intimate relationship. The victim is not interested in a relationship of this nature. The pursuer may send unwanted letters or gifts, leave notes, make phone calls, and visit, watch, or follow the target of his or her affection.

  11. Suspicious jealousy Occurs when a relationship is in its early stages. The smallest distraction, imagined slight, or inattention can be taken as evidence of interest in another person. • Reactive jealousyJealousy that occurs when a partner reveals a current, past, or anticipated relationship with another person.

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