Erik Erikson’s psychosocial developmental stages are eight stages that explain that humans go through social experiences in your life. These social experiences can be positive or negative. Erikson believed that every stage has a crisis that can affect your life negatively and a developmental task that could affect it positively. These stages show how social interactions affect human development and determines the person they become. In this paper, the stage I was to focus on is the sixth, the Intimacy vs. Isolation stage. I picked this stage because I am currently dealing with creating these intimate relationships with others and hoping to find love.
Intimacy versus Isolation is the sixth stage of Erik Erikson’s stages. Young adult hood (18-40) is the time that you go through this stage. Love is a prominent emotion that young adults feel. They want meaningful, emotional and intimate …show more content…
Thomas Armstrong (2012) explains how this stage works and how it can affect your life, like mine. “Now that the individual has hopefully developed a stable identity, she moves into the adult world seeking a partner with whom to share work, sex, friendship, and intimate feelings, failing which, she sinks into exclusivity, elitism, isolation, or other forms of non-intimate social relations.” My whole life, I have been very distinct from people around me. I was bullied as a child so I did not feel the need to have many friends growing up. Growing up, loving friends was hard, because I did not have any so how could I ever get someone to be intimate with me? Finding love was an impossible, unachievable goal to me. I was by myself pretty much my whole childhood and being lonely while you grow up is boring. I did not want to be lonely anymore, I wanted someone, a friend, a boyfriend, someone that cared. As I reached adulthood, I wanted someone to love, but I was terrified of
Intimacy versus Isolation is the sixth stage of Erik Erikson’s stages. Young adult hood (18-40) is the time that you go through this stage. Love is a prominent emotion that young adults feel. They want meaningful, emotional and intimate …show more content…
Thomas Armstrong (2012) explains how this stage works and how it can affect your life, like mine. “Now that the individual has hopefully developed a stable identity, she moves into the adult world seeking a partner with whom to share work, sex, friendship, and intimate feelings, failing which, she sinks into exclusivity, elitism, isolation, or other forms of non-intimate social relations.” My whole life, I have been very distinct from people around me. I was bullied as a child so I did not feel the need to have many friends growing up. Growing up, loving friends was hard, because I did not have any so how could I ever get someone to be intimate with me? Finding love was an impossible, unachievable goal to me. I was by myself pretty much my whole childhood and being lonely while you grow up is boring. I did not want to be lonely anymore, I wanted someone, a friend, a boyfriend, someone that cared. As I reached adulthood, I wanted someone to love, but I was terrified of