Unit 13 Personal Relationships

Generational Identity

Each generation of people has differences from other generations (ex: divorce rates, wars, politically movements, terrorism, sexual identities)

What is the Definition of Love?

The definition of love can vary depending on who you are talking about (parents, friends, siblings, etc.)

What is Passionate Love?

Intense, sensual, and all consuming. Feeling of greatest excitement, sexuality and even danger (almost always fades)

Companionate Love

Friendship, more stable, includes commitment and intimacy

What is Love Essentially?

Love is essentially made-up of fulfillment of needs, caring, and intimacy among two people

What does the Triangular Theory of Love state?

This theory states that love consists of three components-intimacy, passion, and commitment

What can help a Marriage survive?

Coming from similar cultural and economic backgrounds can help a Marriage survive

What is Endogamy?

The tendency to marry someone from one’s own social group

What is Homogamy?

Tendency to marry someone who has similar attributes (age, attractiveness, looks)

What are the three factors to a healthy marriage?

Whether the couples needs are compatible, the husband’s and wife’s images of themselves coincide with their images of each other, and they agree on what the husband’s and wife’s roles in the marriage are.

What are some external factors that can lead to a divorce?

Loss of a job may make a husband feel frustrated that he can’t provide for his family and in turn takes his frustration out on his family, couples simply grow apart: work, Hobbes, raising children, etc.

What feelings/emotions can divorce induce in people?

Divorce can release a lot of emotions: anger, resentment, fear, loneliness, anxiety, and failure. Most people who are recently divorced go through “separation shock“-a mourning of the failed relationship followed by a realization that they can make it on their own.

What is the leading cause for high divorce rates?

Many people have high expectations about marriage and are let down, and this is a leading cause for the high divorce rates.