WHAT IS LOVE Human Behavior LOVE What is
WHAT IS LOVE? Human Behavior
LOVE • What is YOUR definition of Love? • “When the satisfaction, security, and development of another person is as important to you as your own satisfaction, security, and development, love exists. ” – Harry Stack Sullivan
Sternberg’s Theory of LOVE • Robert Sternberg’s theory is based on 3 different scales: intimacy, passion, and commitment • A relationship based on one alone is less likely to survive
• Each stage of love can be described using different combinations of the three elements – Ex. Liking, empty, infatuation, romantic, companionate, fatuous, and consummate
Components of Love • Passion- intense physiological desire for another person • Intimacy- the feeling that one can share all one’s thoughts and actions with another • Commitmentwillingness to stay with a person through the good and the bad
Types of Love • Liking (intimacy)= true friendships; feeling of warmth, closeness, and bonding • Infatuated (passion)=“love at first sight”, often disappears suddenly • Empty (commitment)= may occur when a strong love deteriorates; arranged marriages may begin this way
Types of Love • Romantic love (passion • Fatuous Love (passion + commitment)= “Vegas +intimacy)= bonded wedding” whirlwind emotional and physically marriage without • Companionate love intimacy (commitment+intimacy) = personal relation you build with someone but you may not experience any physical desire
• Consummate Love (intimacy+passion+com mitment)= complete form of love, represents IDEAL form of love • Many try to achieve it, but few actually do • Hard to maintain
• Types of love will shift through stages of a relationship • Time alone does not create intimacy, passion, and commitment– You must work for it! – How?
• Can a teen achieve consummate love? • What kinds of love do you see in your life?
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