Analysis Of John Lee's Six Styles Of Love

Quotation – “Most contemporary relationships begin with an element of eros – that romantic love that is linked to passion, excitement, and an overwhelming sense of attraction to one’s beloved” (Wilcox and Dew 2012:4). Eros is one part of John Lee’s six styles of love and is the type of love that the media usually shows us (Seccombe 2015:110). I believe that our culture has come to believe that what we feel in eros is what love is supposed to be like. The minute those feelings begin to fade many of us believe that we have fallen out of love with the other person, when in reality eros is based more on infatuation than real love. I have had relationships that began with butterflies and giddiness and that feeling always fades in a few months. One or two lasted longer because something more than eros had developed, but usually the relationship faded with the feelings. Our culture puts too much emphasis on what we read in fictional romances …show more content…
Stable marriages not only create happier couples, but happier and healthier children. Children that are raised in households with stable families are more likely to be healthier socially and emotionally (Wilcox and Dew 2012:10). This is important for society as a whole, because these children are less likely to have issues later that society will have to be responsible for.
• The research in the study also shows that unmarried couples that cohabit are also happier and more stable if they spend time alone together (Wilcox and Dew 2012:5). This becomes important when we consider that there has been a large increase in the number of unmarried couple living together in recent years (Seccombe 2015:87). Especially when data also shows that many of these couples also have children residing in their households that need a stable and happy environment in which to live (Seccombe