Intimate relationships

As a child and teenager, I never experienced the chance of having a relationship because I was to focus on my schoolwork, friend, God, and family. However, that all changed when I met a young gentleman my senior year of high school, Michael, he was very handsome and charming. For two years now, we have been falling in love more and more each day. The reason I consider Intimate relationship as one of my values is because being with someone of the opposite sex to share connections…

aimed to formulate a process by which we develop and move through relationships. They proposed that interpersonal relationships develop through gradual amounts of mutual self disclosure, their theory is referred to as the social penetration theory. Self disclosure is the sharing of information about yourself because without it relationships and communication is not possible. In the amount that is disclose in anyone’s relationship, it's primarily based on the breadth, depth, and frequency of the…

introverted; socially isolated; lacking close personal relationships or the ability to form…

SEXUALITY & GENDER Sexuality is the way someone identifies themselves sexually, their attraction and their experiences which may or may not have a connection with sex and gender. Gender is being considered masculine or feminine. Sex is the biological traits that we were first born with such as being a male or female. At a young age, Jane’s grandmother, Alba Villanueva demonstrated the importance of her virginity by crushing a flower in her hands and telling Jane to make it to its original form.…

Reflection Knowing when there are obstacles in a relationship and being able to observe and adjust one’s feelings is a way to monitor one’s thoughts and actions. One must know when and where to disclose intimate knowledge about oneself to protect one’s self from being used by another person. Learning the concept of how to know what to say and when to say something can keep the clarification of a conversation going. Being an active listener, keeping negative emotions out of the conversation and…

I meet my Husband at the bar last night introduced ourselves and we got married this morning. That’s an example of an unlikely situation. Relationships such as with a friend, parent, boyfriend or spouse have been evaluated closely. The theory is more you disclose information the closer you get to another person. This takes times in one night this is very unlikely. As you disclose information you move a step closer to that person. In order to create small talk you would need to get the persons…

Everything in the relationship was routine including the sex. When everything is looked at as a job then there is no room for self expression and intimacy will never blossom. When someone is alone that person tends to have doubts about their feelings and have tendencies to hesitate when it comes to their actions. For instance in the book “1984” the main character Winston spent weeks getting up enough courage to write in a journal. On the other hand, it only took him a week and a half to…

Often times in relationships, people are found to be secure and insecure. People at times question themselves to how secure or insecure they feel in their relationships with others. For example, some people might feel relatively secure in their relationships with others, whereas other people might be more concerned about whether others truly care about them. ("Your Personality," n.d.) Psychologists refer to these individual differences as attachment styles. Personal Patterns of Attachment…

truth if I say that we are all patterning or modeling our relationships after some relationship that has/had amazing chemistry. Someone could proudly say after a breakup: 'I knew they would breakup... they were not just right for each other'. It is sometimes about just Chemistry, though there is more to a relationship than Chemistry. We could learn from what Chemistry gives to a relationship and find our way to good lasting relationships: 1. Freedom: Freedom is a simple…

to survival. We need it because emotionally, psychologically, and physically we need close and reliable relationships in our life which complete that need to belong. Without that closeness of others we would be alone and unable to reproduce, unable to get all resources that we need to live. Having social contact with others that are not close to us or those that we hold intimate relationships with are very different because we hold different types of conversations with either. With those that we…