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Chapter 12

Chapter 12. Love and Commitment. Chapter Overview. Divorce and Its Consequences The Divorce Experience Single-Parent Families Remarriage. Love and Commitment. Adjusting to Intimate Relationships Sharing Responsibilities Communication and Conflict Making the Relationship Better

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Chapter 12

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  1. Chapter 12 Love and Commitment

  2. Chapter Overview • Divorce and Its Consequences • The Divorce Experience • Single-Parent Families • Remarriage Love and Commitment • Adjusting to Intimate Relationships • Sharing Responsibilities • Communication and Conflict • Making the Relationship Better • Sexuality • Changes Over Time • Love and Intimacy • The Ingredients of Love • Love and Close Relationships • Commitment • Cohabitation • Marriage and Other Committed Relationships

  3. Chapter Summary Love and Intimacy • The Ingredients of Love • Love and Close Relationships Commitment • Cohabitation • Marriage and Other Committed Relationships

  4. Chapter Summary cont’d Adjusting to Intimate Relationships • Sharing Responsibilities • Communication and Conflict • Making the Relationship Better • Sexuality • Changes Over Time

  5. Chapter Summarycont’d Divorce and Its Consequences • The Divorce Experience • Single-Parent Families • Remarriage

  6. Love and Intimacy The Ingredients of Love Love Involves deep and tender feelings of affection for or attachment to one or more persons. • …overlaps somewhat with friendships. • …involves greater exclusiveness and emotional involvement. • …can involve more ambivalence, conflict, distress, and mutual criticism than friendships. • …involves more willingness to give our utmost for partners.

  7. Love and Intimacy cont’d Types of Love ROMANTIC LOVE: The strong, emotional attachment to a person of the opposite sex and, on occasion, the same sex. PASSIONATE LOVE: An intense emotional reaction to a potential romantic partner who may not even love you in return (i.e., head-over-heels feeling). COMPANIATE LOVE: A loving but practical relationship based primarily on emotional closeness and commitment rather than physical or sexual intimacy.

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