As many people already know, a relationship is the way two or more people are connected whether it is tied to a relationship with your family, peers, and/or intimate relationships. A person can have different types of relationships with different people, and each group is different. For example, when a person is in an intimate relationship, they are going to engage in it differently than they would with their peers. There are boundaries set with every bond that a person has with each individual. In one of the articles, it was said that Bowlby’s theory specifies that attachment recognized in parent-child relationships will determine the value of relationships formed during one’s adulthood years (Caron, A., Lafontaine, M., Bureau, …show more content…
It becomes more stable, exclusive, and more devoted in late adolescence and early adulthood. For example, emerging adults who are in a romantic relationship typically consist of short-term dating for most. Whereas during a person’s early adulthood, they begin to form marriages and if children arrive, a person’s main focus is turn toward parenting, which then takes away from other relationships a person may have. It all links back to a person’s childhood. There are several different types of attachment a child forms with their caregiver and type can affect one as they get older. Relationships with caregivers impact the growth of children’s mental model of the self, which signifies to perceptions of the self as either worthy or unworthy of love and affection. A study was created to examine the correlation between relationships with parents and peers in adolescence and the quality of young adults’ more intimate relationships. Relationships provide a variety of skills, and behaviors, as well as opportunities to learn different expectations that can be carried into more serious relationships. It is said in psychology that each genders’ brain works and thinks differently (which also relates back to the limbic system in the brain). For example, when it comes to talking about feelings and emotions, girls tend to have a benefit, and tend to have more interest in talking about those things. Females incline to be more focused on their goals and emphasize care and attachment during a relationship than males do. It was said that females are more ‘relationship oriented’ than males are and are more invested (Crockett, L. & Randall, B.,