Intimacy Theory of Love

2.1.5.2. Passion

This encompasses consummation. With psychologically their self

2.1.5.3. Commitment

This encompasses, the long term, the shared is the most volitional of the relationship pp. 118

2.1.5.4. These are the forms of love according to Sternberg

encompasses drives that lead to romance, physical attraction, With intimacy, the lovers become closer, inter psychologically their self-concepts begin to overlap. Commitment encompasses, in the short term, the decision to remain with the shared achievements and plans made with that other. volitional of the three, the decision to take steps to maintain pp. 118-135. e are the forms of love according to Sternberg: Figure 2.2. Sternberg’s The Forms of Love 16 physical attraction, and sexual closer, inter-dependant, and remain with another, and in with that other. Commitment to maintain the love and 17

2.1.5.4.1. Likingfriendship: Is characterizes true friendships, in which a person

feels a bond, warmth, and a closeness with another but not passion or long- term commitment. 2.1.5.4.2. Infatuated love: It is pure passion. 2.1.5.4.3. Empty love: It is characterized by commitment without intimacy or passion.

2.1.5.4.4. Romantic love: It bonds individuals emotionally through intimacy and

physically through passionate arousal, but neither is sustained without commitment.

2.1.5.4.5. Companionate love: It is an intimate, non-passionate type of love that is

stronger than friendship because of the element of long-term commitment. The love ideally shared between family members is a form of companionate love, as is the love between close friends who have a platonic but strong friendship.

2.1.5.4.6. Fatuous love: Its commitment is motivated largely by passion without the

stabilizing influence of intimacy.

2.1.5.4.7. Consummate love: It is the complete form of love. Consummate love is

theorized to be that love associated with the “perfect couple” p. 341.

2.2. Theoretical Framework

This sub chapter explains how the mentioned theories give big contributions to the findings of this study. Freud’s Psychoanalysis brought vital role in analyzes