Intimate relationships can be some of the most fulfilling experiences, while at the same time some of the scariest. Having been in a long term intimate relationship for over 15 years with the same man, this topic is something that I have had to deal with multiple times throughout our relationships at all the different stages all while trying to stay in love. When you are with someone for a long period of time you can become comfortable, and with comfortability can come staleness. Often time’s people lose their passion, their connection and intimacy which they once had. Throughout this paper I am going to be touching on the topic of the different stages within one's relationships, and going over the topics that can possibly save not only yourself, …show more content…
“Intimate communication entails partners fully listening to one another and asking clarifying questions that allow them to know each other more deeply. Successfully intimate partners are also able state their own feelings and thoughts, even when those differ from their partner’s. Being open also is associated with sharing power in a relationship.” (Wiley) Telling your partner what you expect or how to be pleased needs to be done with good communication, and trust. If you want to stay in love with your partner communication is going to have to be one of your top …show more content…
Romantic passion encompasses that powerful inclination you might have to be close to a loved one, the strong attraction to, infatuation with, and desire to be with your partner. It is the force that compels you to be near your partner and the motivational pull responsible for the feeling of missing that comes from being away from him or her. Passion includes sexual desire, but it’s more than that. Accordingly, to Sternberg, “passion involves a longing for someone, which can be inclusive of sexual desire, but can also describe the emotions involved in the powerful
It is not all about communication” . It says that not surprisingly those couples who reported communicating more effectively showed the highest satisfaction with their relationships. But the next two reasons which were also the only other ones with strong links to couple happiness, were knowledge of partner which included everything from knowing their pizza-topping preferences to their hopes and dreams and life skills like being able to hold a job, manage money, etc . But in order to have a healthy relationship I do believe that the communication is key but they also do need to know how to communicate in a healthy way that will not cause
A lack of communication in any area of your relationship can cause you to miss out on what you want. For instance, in an intimate relationship, not communicating about what you need in the bedroom will result in a lack of pleasure and satisfaction. Pleasurable intimacy is important in an intimate relationship as it increases trust and the desire to keep doing intimate things!
He mentions that with any relationship good communication about intimacy needs, sexual desires and fantasies, and personal preferences, limitations, jealousy, attraction needs to be discussed. He also points out that while communication is the main key between the partners. They must also have honesty and trust in order to sustain a healthy relationship (Hall, 2010, p. 253).
A wise man once said “Man is only great when he acts from passion.” When you hear the word passion, the first thing that might come to your mind is something related to love, and you’re not entirely wrong. According to Merriam- Webster’s dictionary, passion is defined as a strong feeling of enthusiasm or excitement for something or about doing something or a strong feeling (such as anger) that causes you to act in a dangerous way. All in all, it is a strong feeling, be it happiness, sadness, anger or liberality. You can be passionate about many things such as love, sports, food, or intimacy. However, it can also mean having a strong yearning for something.
Both partners should feel safe to share their thoughts without feeling that their partner will judge them. They should be able to communicate with one another without having any fear of judgement or ridicule. They should also help build their partners self-esteem and make them feel good about themselves regardless of the situation. They shall embrace one another and respect each other. In order for the couple to maintain a healthy and successful relationship, the couple should nurture open and honest communication, encourage the expression of feelings, and build self-esteem amongst each other.
Intimate relationships require self-awareness; empathy; the ability to communicate emotions, resolve conflict and sustain commitments if the relationship is potentially a sexual one, sexual one, sexual decision making. Such skills are pivotal as young adults decide whether to marry or form intimate partnerships and to have or not to have children ( Lambeth & Hallett, 2002). Let’s look at two expressions of intimacy in young adulthood: friendship and love.
Communication allows a relationship to grow and thrive by giving the partners an opportunity to share their dreams,
Understanding and evaluating different theories regarding romantic attachments within the perimeters of psychology. Theories and ideologies as to how people fall in love and the reasoning behind this is one of the broadest subjects one can come across in psychology. To make things easier theorists and psychologists have broken all these romantic attachment reasons into categories. The following essay will be tackling two of various major theories that are known to be the reason behind romantic attachments. The argument formed is that the theories objections or opposite actions are just as successful for romantic attachment.
This is because, as stated in Arriaga’s Fluctuation in Satisfaction, “individuals who had highly fluctuating levels of satisfaction were more likely to be in relationships that ended than [the] individuals who exhibited stable levels of satisfaction over time”(10). This however does not mean there cannot be disagreements or even fights, but that there needs to be a resolution. Allowing the fight to linger warrants a festering of resentment of what could have been said instead of looking to the future. The last step of a fight is to do something to make up towards one another, to acknowledge that there is a resolution and that there was a wrong. This action can be as simple as a hug and a kiss to a grand gesture of a large planned out date.
So, instead of talking too much or even complaining, listen to your partner more and offer positive responses as you can. Good listeners share some characteristics. For example, show his/her attention and interest through looking straight to the speakers’ eyes and keep asking question based on the talk. It’s suitable not only for intimate relationships but also friendships. This kind of efficient and positive two-way communication do good to the relationships and help you understand your partner better and further.
Communication is important in relationships as it allows us to share our interest, concerns, support each other; organize our lives and make decisions; and it allows us to work together. Effective communication is based on the way we talk and listen, how we respond and our body language. We can all learn how to improve the way we communicate.
All relationships have the stage of new love, but the companionate stage is what allows the relationship to last. The passion in a relationship starts and can affect what the relationship could turn into. Haidt quotes Ellen Berscheid and Elaine Walster, two social psychologists, as they explain passionate love as a “wildly emotional state in which tender and sexual feelings, elation and pain, anxiety and relief, altruism and jealousy coexist in a confusion of feelings” (124), while companionate love was also described by Berscheid and Walster as “affection we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply intertwined” (125). The main difference between the two types of love is, passionate love can, and most likely will, fade overtime; it does not evolve into companionate love. Passionate and companionate are two bases of love that develop at their own pace with no real r...
Around the world people love. They live for love, they write for love, the sing, eat, cook, die and kill for love (ForumNetwork, 2009). Since the beginning of recorded time, people have wondered why love is such an intense and universal feeling. There is no culture in this planet that does not have love (ForumNetwork, 2009). This essay will only talk about romantic love were sexuality and attraction are involved. Romantic love, is one of the most powerful energies on earth (ForumNetwork, 2009), it is indeed one on the most addictive substances we can experience at least once in our life. The rush of cocaine and the rush of being in love depend on the same chemicals in our brain (ForumNetwork, 2009); we are literally addicted to love. The feeling of being in love does not depend whether the other part loves you back or not, it will help you feel more happy that is for sure, but the intensity of the feeling loved or heartbroken is the same, they both depart from the same principle: the love and desire of the other. Love remains in the most basic system of our brain, under all cognitive process, under all motor impulses; it is placed in our reward system, the most ancient systems of all (ForumNetwork, 2009).
Throughout most of my life I have gained friendships and relationships with others that have turned into long term, but others which only lasted a short while. The friendship that has greatly impacted my life significantly over the last eight years is someone who means so much to me. This meaningful friendship all started back when I was in middle school, which has grown stronger over the years. I met Brooke in middle school because we had some of the same classes and were in homeroom together. Our friendship developed quickly and lasted throughout our high school years. We became really close our Junior and Senior year of high school. But, maintaining our friendship hasn’t always been so easy. Today, we text and call each other on our free time, but I know I can count and rely on her when I need someone to talk too. I call her my second sister and vice versa. And when we go home on breaks we see one another as much as we can. The best part of our relationship is that if one is in need of advice or in need of a shoulder to cry on, we are always there for one another. Keeping in contact is very important in our relationship and communication has played a key role in our relationship.
The success of any relationship relies on the ability to communicate well. Communication is important in all relationships as it allows us to share our interests, concerns, and support of each other. It helps us to organize our lives and make decisions; and it allows us to work together. Effective communication is based on the way we talk and listen, how we respond as well as our body language. We can all learn how to improve the way we communicate because it takes more than words to create a safe, exciting and secure relationship. All too often the signals we send are not those we intend to send, and when this happens, both the connection and trust are lost in our relationships.