Personal Relationships

• Personal Relationship

  refers to the association and close connection between people.
• Teenagers

  commonly have relation with their family, friends and significant other.
• Bonds

  often grow from and are formed by mutual experiences
• Adolescence stage

  A new understanding of on’s self occurs. This may include independenc, identity and self-esteem.
• Family is defined as “two or more persons who are related by birt, marriage, or adoption, and who live together as one household.”
• Family bonds

  plays a vital role in person’s well-being since it may form other kinds of relationships such as friendships and romantic relationship.
• Strong family relationships

  is ideal although it doesn’t happen always.
• In family relationships there should be love and closeness.
• Parents and older relatives

  role is to guide discipline and support you when needed.
• Arguments and disagreements are normal in a family, these are short-lived for families love and care
• Increase of arguments and conflicts with parents when teenagers asserts independence and identity as adult
• Increase of arguments and conflicts with parents shall pass after teenage years.
• Friends

  are the people who we are not related to but who we choose to interact with.
• Friends

  The people who we trust, respect, care about and feel that we can confide in.
• Friendship

  A reciprocal relationship. Both people must see each other the same way for it to exist.
• Friends who we are very close and know each other well are referred to as

  Best friends or close friends.
• Are mutually respectful, supportive and share common interests and ideas.

  Good friendships
• It should be built on honesty, support and loyalty

  Friendship
• Is not appropriate in a friendship

  Romantic contact
• When you feel very strongly attracted to the other person, both personality and physically

  Romantic Relationship
• It should be reciprocated by the pther person in a relationship.

  Romantic Relationship
• Exist between a boyfriend and girlfriend.

  Romantic relationship
• Often see each other and when apart always find ways to contact each other by phone.

  Romantic Relationship
• Is the closest form of relationship

  Romantic relationship
• Two people involved will often described themselves as being attracted to each other or

  In love
• Romantic arguments and disagreements can be overcome through

  Communicatio, understanding and compromise
• Built on love, trust, respect, support, acceptance, shared interests and desire to share their lives together and end with marriage

  Successful Romantic Relationship
• Various kinds of physical contact are not appropriate for

  Teenagers
• According to her, attraction is primarily on pyshiology or certain hormones that get attracted to others

  Helen Fisher
• First stage during the changes of personality development which leads to closeness, love and commitment

  Attraction
• In biological model of love as proposed by___, love can start with any of these three feelings: lust, attraction and commitment

  Helen fisher
• It can start with lust, attraction and commitment

  Love
• Three Brain systems of love

  lust, attraction and commitment
• Refers to an urge or desire that motivates us to partake in sexual

  Lust
• Describe as love-struck phase.

  Attraction
• The stage when a person loses sleep and appetite over someon, becomes excited while daydreaming

  Attraction
• It is one of the primary determinants of romantic attraction. Most people prefer whom they consider physically attractive.

  Physical Attractiveness
• People tend to get attracted to people who are geographically closer to them

  Proximity
• People are more likely to develop feelings of mutual familiarity with the people who live close to them

  Proximity
• The more attitudes and opinions two people share, the more they will want to do the same activities, and create strong bond between them

  Similarity