Theory Of Love Movie Analysis

In the beginning of the movie, we saw how Ethan and Kate treated each other in their marriage. Kate did all the cleaning and cooking, and Ethan expected everything to be done without being thankful for any of it. Neither of them understood each other and they certainty did not communicate well with each other. This is called rapport, which is the first stage of Reiss’s Theory of Love. Ethan and Kate did not know how to communicate their needs with each other. Whenever they were talking, they were arguing. It is so important to be able to communicate with your spouse and communicate your needs. Katie said over and over that Ethan didn’t know her needs and he didn’t know how she felt. If you do not communicate with your spouse, things will boil …show more content…
These two did not rely on each other and did not want anything to do with the other. It seemed like they were looking for ways to get under the other’s skin. In the beginning, it seemed as though Ethan depended on Kate to do everything for him and Kate saw that. She did not feel respected or truly loved. Mutual dependency, the third stage, was not shown through this couple. It seems as though it was one depending more than the other. It is important for both parties to equally depend on the other for support and love. It was given to us that Ethan and Kate had been married for several years and had dated for a while before that. So they had been together for a long time. Over time, life started to get old and they were doing the same thing over and over again. They felt like they did not need each other. Their personalities were very different, and they were butting heads about everything. An example of this was when Kate started being flirty and spending more time with her doctor friend. She felt like he treated her and knew her so much better than Ethan. She was not getting the love she wanted from home, so she found it somewhere