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
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physical attraction, and sexual closer, inter-dependant, and
remain with another, and in with that other. Commitment
to maintain the love and
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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