According to “Falling in Love” Elia/Chen Lecture notes (class reader section 3 chapter 2), we fall in love with someone are physically close to us such as school, workplaces, neighborhoods or that people who creates opportunity to see them and interact with them. We fall in love because of familiarity and similarities, becoming familiar with their behavior is making it is easier to predict and create a realistic expectations and having common values, interest attitudes, intellectual abilities, race, age, or socio-economic status. We can decide the desired relationship from the information that we know from the person we desire to have a type of relationship with, the possibilities ongoing relationship whether friendship, commitment, acquaintance or romance but we cannot dictate easily if it can be a good romantic partner or not base on just first few minutes of meet …show more content…
Relationships – romantic & sexual, traditional, monogamous lovers, married couples. Some people think/know that a person would be a good romantic partner for them within the first few minutes of meeting them in person or by just judging from their first impression. I disagree with knowing if a person can be a romantic partner just meeting them for the first time because people cannot just decide and know that the person they just met for first time can be a romantic partner easily, they just met and they don’t know each other very well. Based on my experience and people that I know is that I cannot just know someone that I just met first time can be a romantic partner because you do not know that person well, what is the person’s family background, his/her characteristic. We need to get to know the person first before entering a new relationship. learning more about the person often needed to motivate a desire for contact. Seeking common factors such as origins, hobbies, families, friends, work and it will take them to decide on which next stage of deciding where to take the relationship. Most of the people who are in a relationship are the people who are something in common each other. People are together because of commonalities. I disagree that we can determine a person can be a romantic partner by just the first