Triangular theory of love

It is incredible how one word, love, can have so many different values and interpretations. Love is truly a mysterious and confusing matter. Ordinarily, many people came up with different theories about love and what is it. People either choose to believe in a specific theory or make up their own interpretation of love. Different theories and interpretations can focus on some aspects and leave others. I have chosen a theory that I think best addresses love, Sternberg’s triangular theory of love. Sternberg’s triangular theory of love views love as having three main components to love: passion, intimacy, and commitment. Passion involves feelings of romance, physical attraction, and sexual arousal. Intimacy is based on feelings of attachment, closeness, and connectedness. Commitment involves agreeing to remain with one another and plan ahead with one another. Sternberg identified eight types of love that can be described as different combinations of the three main components. To understand this better, picture a triangle where intimacy is at the top point…

The triangular theory of love is a theory that emphasizes the dynamic quality of love relationships. According to this theory, love is composed of three elements that are depicted by the points of a triangle, inclusive of intimacy, passion, and commitment, which can be combined in a variety of ways to create different types of love, varying in the degree of love, such as romantic love, infatuation, and empty love. (Yarber, p. 227) The first element in the triangular theory of love is intimacy.…

American Professor of Human Development at Cornell University, created a theory that can understand the survivability of Romeo and Juliet’s relationship. The theory was called the Triangular theory of love which has three main components in an interpersonal relationship: passion, intimacy, and commitment. Before he created his theory of love, Robert is an expert researcher on love and spent an abundance of his career researching on the topic of love. His motive on creating the theory of love was…

into the hideous Beast until he learns to love and be loved in return. The spirited, headstrong village girl Belle (Paige O'Hara) enters the Beast's castle after he imprisons her father Maurice (Rex Everhart). With the help of his enchanted servants, including the matronly Mrs. Potts (Angela Lansbury), Belle begins to draw the cold-hearted Beast out of his isolation. This movie has a lot…

In 1988, R.J. Sternberg published his Triangular Theory of Love. His model describes the various types of love that exist based on intimacy , passion, and commitment (Sternberg 233). At the center of the triangle, where all three components join, is what Sternberg called “consummate love.” Socially, consummate love is the ideal true love. However, many of the other types of love are mistaken as true love. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez deals with, as the title suggests,…

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…

There are many different things that come into play when talking about adult love which are the triangular theory of love, patterns of love, as well as the attachment theory. The triangular theory of love was developed by Robert J. Sternberg. The triangular theory of love presents three different building blocks and in order for love to be complete in a relationship all of the building blocks must exist. When multiple or even just one of the building blocks is missing in a love relationship it…

“Love is not just a verb”-Kendrick Lamar. This verse in the song “Poetic Justice” was his way to say what love is and what is not. Love could be confused for lust. Lust for the appearance attraction. The classic idea of the ‘Triangular love theory’ developed by Robert Sternberg. Where he suggest that there are three elements of love: intimacy, passion, and commitment. Along these lines there are different combinations of the elements. A great example of Stemberg’s theory would be the famous…

Relationships, especially love and friendship, has become an eternal subject in human’s life. This is because both of them are alternative relations throughout our lifetime, compared to family. More interestingly, friendships can be a starting point of lovers. Yet, at worst, they may turn to strangers or even enemies after breaking up owing to the pain and tears in the past. In this essay, we will investigate the similarities and differences between love and friendship. First, we will examine…

A relationship needs mature and healthy love. It is important for us to acknowledge the differences between mature and infatuation love. To know whether each relationship is mature or immature is to see through their actions, communications, and attitudes towards their relationship. For Mature love, couples will show their partner love and respect. For the couple I interviewed, they have proved me that their relationship is mature. As Jasmine shared that she will respect her partner by not…