teenage relationships

• Personal Relationships

  connection between two people
• Types of

  1. Family Relationships
  2. Friendships
  3. Acquaintances
  4. Romantic Relationships
• Attraction

  action or power of evoking interest, pleasure or liking for someone or something
• Types of Attraction

  1. Sexual
  2. Romantic
  3. Aesthetic
  4. Sensual
  5. Emotional
  6. Intellectual
• Physical Attractiveness

  attractive people draw out more positive first impression ("pretty privileges")
• Similarity

  people classify other people based on information they already knew about them
• Social Categorization

  people mentally group others on where they belong and that with the same characteristics with them
• Proximity

  pertains to physical distance with other people
• Reciprocity

  feelings being reciprocated or returned the same way
• Love

  strong affection for another arising out of kinship or personal ties
• Triangular Model of Love

  by Dr. Charles Strangor
• Intimacy

  affective variables such as closeness, caring, and emotional support
• Passion

  consists of physiological and affective variables like physical attraction, emotional response
• Commitment

  cognitive process and decision to dedicate love to another individual with the willingness to keep the relationship lasts
• Types of Love

  1. Nonlove
  2. Liking
  3. Infatuation
  4. Empty Love
  5. Romantic Love
  6. Companionate Love
  7. Fatuous Love
  8. Consummate Love
• Nonlove

  • no component
  • "casual interactions"
• Liking

  • intimacy is present
  • aka friendship
  • feelings of "closeness, bondedness, and warmth without feelings of intense passion or long-term commitment"
• Infatuation

  • passion is present
  • "love at first sight"
• Empty Love

  • commitment is present
  • found in long term relationships where the couple has lost feelings for one another
• Romantic Love

  • intimacy + passion
  • "liking with added element"
• Companionate Love

  • intimacy + commitment
  • when the "spark" in relationship is lost
• Fatuous Love

  • passion + commitment
  • relationship may likely fail
• Consummate Love

  • all components
  • "unconditional love"
• Privacy and Intimacy

  are two attributes describing personal relationships and level of commitment to another person
• Attraction

  it is a force that unites people abd can grow into an attachment which eventually leads to commitment