HLTH 334 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sexual Identity
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Initial attraction to a potential partner occurs. Important to understand what qualities you find most and least attractive in another person. Examples: our favorite song or our special restaurant . Stage of getting to know each other better. Sharing likes, dislikes, hobbies, and other things about herself. Physical touch may also begin at this stage. Discovering if you have like interests with the other person. Grows the more time you spend together. Sharing good parts of yourself that make you feel vulnerable. Events that occur in childhood may surface at this time. Desire to be in more intimate relationship with another person. Three factors increase potential to remain committed: partner"s satisfaction with relationship, partners perceived lack of alternatives, investment of important or numerous resource in the relationship. The triangular theory of love explains the topic of love in interpersonal relationships. The theory describes types of love based on three different scales:
