FRHD 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Libido, Emotional And Behavioral Disorders, Storge

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Family Relations and Human Development
• Course: FRHD 1020
• Professor: Ruth Neustifter

Document Summary

Intimacy with, caring for, and commitment to another person. Desire to enter, maintain, or expand a close, connected, ongoing relationship with another person or entity . Person who is temperamentally suited to another. High scores on intimacy, commitment, passion, value similarity, and needs fulfillment. Love is something one does, not a state one is in . Asked participants to list key features of love and then asked a second sample to rate the importance of these features. Central to love were trust and caring. Uncertainty and butterflies were considered to be peripheral. People also describe love and joy similarly. Being in the love is more important than anything else. In the past, most people married for political, economical, practical and family reasons. 76% of women and 35% of men would have married an otherwise perfect partner who they did not love (kephart, 1967) North americans consider romance as a reason to marry to an unprecedented degree.