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21 Cards in this Set
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What is a committed romantic relationship?
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relationships between individuals who assume that they will be primary and continuing parts of each other's lives
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What are the three dimensions of romantic relationships?
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- intimacy
- commitment - passion |
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What is passion?
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intensely positive feelings and fervent desire for another person
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What is commitment?
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the intention to remain involved with a relationship
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What are the two reasons to commit to a relationship?
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- because it is comfortable and pleasing
- to avoid negative consequences that would accompany it ending |
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What is intimacy?
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feelings of closeness, connection and tenderness
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What are the three primary styles of loving?
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- eros
- storge - ludus |
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Describe the eros style of loving?
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- powerful and passionate
- dramatic - spontaneous - fastest moving |
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Describe the storge style of loving?
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- comfortable
- even-keeled - based on friendship and compatibility - develops gradually |
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Describe the ludus style of loving?
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- playful love
- see love as a game - not looking for commitment; more about the chase |
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What are the three secondary styles of love?
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- pragma
- mania - agape |
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Describe the pragma style of loving?
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- pragmatic, practical
- clear criteria for partner [ludus + storge] |
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Describe the mania style of loving?
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- "madness from the gods"
- unsure that others really love them - emotional extremes [eros + ludus] |
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Describe the agape style of loving?
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- generous, selfless
- love the other with no expectation of personal gain or return [storge + eros] |
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What are the three general stages of development in romantic relationships?
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- growth
- navigation - deterioration |
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What are the six stages of romantic relationship growth?
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- individuality
- invitational communication - exploration communication - intensifying communication - revising communication - commitment |
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Define environmental spoiling...
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situations in which proximity breeds ill will (too much time around one another causes a negative impact on the relationship)
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What is navigation?
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staying committed and living a life together despite ups and downs, and pleasant and unpleasant surprises.
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What is relational culture?
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private world of rules, understandings, meanings and patterns of acting and interpreting that partners create for their relationship
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What is placemaking?
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creating a comfortable personal environment that reflects the values, experiences and tastes of the couple
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What are the 5 stages of relationship deterioration?
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- intrapsychic processes (beginning to feel dissatisfied)
- dyadic processes (breakdown of established patterns, behavior changes) - social support - grave-dessing processes (accepting its end) - resurrection processes (move on with life) |
