Looking back through my previous experiences of relationships I realized that there are different types of love, different levels of attractions and commitment; which Sternburg’s triangular theory of love displays eight different types of love including: nonlover, liking, infatuated love, empty love, romantic love, companionate love, fatuous love, and consummate love. I have not experienced empty love or a relationship that I had to be in for the sake of someone else like a marriage where I stayed in it for my children or an arranged marriage where I stayed in it for my family’s well-being. There are a few relationships that I have experienced that I didn’t say “I love you” to them because our relationship didn’t develop in that direction;
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Feldman describes a fatuous relationship, as a couple who rush into their relationship and move in together (Feldman, 2012, p. 342). Honestly, like empty love I have not experience this type of love. I’ve never experienced a passion so great that I lose control of my senses and rush in especially after my abusive relationship my mind is always over thinking every detail. Also, being raised in a strict Baptist church most of my life I was brought up that it was not proper to move in with guy without being married so that was always in the back of my mind when we I was seriously dating someone. Without experiencing this type of relationship I cannot say that the theme of love …show more content…
We’ve been together eight years next month and have been married for over five years. I knew I wanted to marry this man when we went on our first date, and luckily for me he had the same feeling. I feel in love early on in the relationship and have stayed in love with him. I had to grow from the different relationships before I was ready for this one. I had to get over my commitment issues, realize that I didn’t have to ask for permission for everything, and I had to realize that I couldn’t have a many friendships men or at least they had to try and have respect for my relationship with boyfriend. Still the hardest part of this relationship is learning how to communicate with one another; which communication is an area of relationship development that even the oldest couples sometimes have difficulties with. Without communication you could lose the ability to be intimate, or passionate and your ability to commit to the other person becomes
Feldman describes a fatuous relationship, as a couple who rush into their relationship and move in together (Feldman, 2012, p. 342). Honestly, like empty love I have not experience this type of love. I’ve never experienced a passion so great that I lose control of my senses and rush in especially after my abusive relationship my mind is always over thinking every detail. Also, being raised in a strict Baptist church most of my life I was brought up that it was not proper to move in with guy without being married so that was always in the back of my mind when we I was seriously dating someone. Without experiencing this type of relationship I cannot say that the theme of love …show more content…
We’ve been together eight years next month and have been married for over five years. I knew I wanted to marry this man when we went on our first date, and luckily for me he had the same feeling. I feel in love early on in the relationship and have stayed in love with him. I had to grow from the different relationships before I was ready for this one. I had to get over my commitment issues, realize that I didn’t have to ask for permission for everything, and I had to realize that I couldn’t have a many friendships men or at least they had to try and have respect for my relationship with boyfriend. Still the hardest part of this relationship is learning how to communicate with one another; which communication is an area of relationship development that even the oldest couples sometimes have difficulties with. Without communication you could lose the ability to be intimate, or passionate and your ability to commit to the other person becomes