HLWL 1109 Chapter 7: HLWLCHAPTER7
5 Oct 2016
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Forms and measures of love: romantic versus compassionate love. Romantic love: passionate love, infatuation, obsessive love, and even lovesickness. Comes a sense of ecstasy and anxiety, physical attraction and sexual desire. Blooms in the initial euphoria of a new attachment to a sexual partner. Involves feelings of deep affection, attachment, intimacy and ease with the partner, as well as the development of trust, loyalty, acceptance and a willingness to sacrifice for the partner. Does not have the passionate high and low swings of romantic love but may even be a deeper more intimate love than romantic love: the colors of love: john alan lee. Psychologists john alan lee suggests that in romantic relationships, there are more forms of love than just romantic and compassionate love. Speak of their immediate attraction to their lover. Most have an image of their ideal partner in their mind which a real partner cannot fulfill. Commitment, dependency and intimacy are not valued.
