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Identity

is how you view yourself, based on your abilities, strengths, weaknesses, beliefs, past experiences, etc. It is summed up in your sense of uniqueness.

Parents

are the primary relationships you have. Parents are expected to look after you and provide for you.

John Bowlby

a psychologist who highlighted the importance of attachments between parents and children, pointed out that those who are securely attached to their parents are most likely to have healthy relationships with their peers and future spouses.

Peers

are a set of individuals who are of the same age or maturity. Peers are those you spend time playing or hanging out with.

Intimacy

is self-disclosure or sharing your private thoughts to another person.

Similarity

possessing the same interest of another person

Dating

is a form of interaction with the intention of getting to know another person better

Erik Erikson

a known psychologist on social development, pointed out that you explore relationships outside the home and crave for a sense of belonging

“like,” “heart,” and others

Buttons such as ____ have become the basis of some to bring their relationships with other people a notch higher or to end. Moreover, it has also become some others’ source of validation and security.

pasalubong

Men who are serious about winning a woman's heart must formally express his intent to her family. He must bring him gifts, or what we call

Harana or serenading

is one of the rituals of courtship in the Philippines during the old times.

Suitors

are expected to sing a song of love at night for the woman of their affection.

pakipot (hard-to-get) and mahinhin (cay, shy, modest)

A traditional dalagang Filipina is expected to be