Attraction, Love

and Intimacy

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1. What type of a person attracts you?

2. What would you react if your crush
commend your physical appearance?
3. Is physical appearance important in
choosing your partner?
4. How would you feel if your best friend
confesses his or her affection for you?
5. In entering a relationship, do you
think its important to held hands, kiss
or even have sex?
6. Have you been truly in love with
someone else? How did you know?
7. When time comes, do you think its
important to see you partner everyday?
8. Does love chooses gender?
9. When time comes, are you willing to
reveal things about you that you only
know to your partner?

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Attraction
-one object is
drawn to
another object

Intimacy

It is
about
being
emotiona
lly close

Attraction and
intimacy are
described as
being on a
continuum
Intimacy

Attraction

Love
a strong affection for
another arising out of
kinship or personal ties,
an assurance of affection,
unselfish loyal and
benevolent concern for
the good of another, or a
person's adoration of

accrdg.
Psychologist Robert
Sternberg

Intimacy
Feelings
of
closeness,
connectedn
ess, and
bondednes
s in loving
relationshi

Passion
The drive
that leads to
romance,
physical
attraction,
sexual
consummati
on, and
related

Commitment
the
decision
that one
loves
someone
else and,
the
commitme
nt to

8 possible kinds of Love

Relationship
1.LIKING- warmth and
closeness WITHOUT
passion
2.NON-LOVE- ABSENCE of the
three components
3.INFATUATION- High degree
of AROUSAL
4.EMPTY LOVE- commitment

5.ROMANTIC LOVE- Liking+

Physical attraction
WITHOUT COMMITMENT
6.FATUOUS LOVE- EMOTIONAL
CORE is missing.
7.COMPANIONATE LOVE- a deep
affection and commitment
remain. It is stronger
than friendship because
of the extra element of

8.CONSUMMATE LOVECOMPLETE LOVE

Love is patient and kind,

love does not envy or boast,
it is not arrogant or rude, it
does not insist in its own
way, it is not irritable or
resentful, it does not rejoice
at wrong doing but rejoices
with truth

Einjel Genoza