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
Friendships and romantic relationships makes our lives go round. Without them our lives would be dull and lonely. Unlike family members, we are allowed to choose our friends and lovers. There are various levels of friendships and diverse forms of romantic relationships, and they can all lead to being close, intimate, and loving. Both friendships and romances considerably enrich the well-being of our physical and mental state. Friendships can lead to romantic relationships, and romantic relationships can lead to just being friends.
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.
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 is a significant component in a healthy and successful relationship. The three main successful parts to communication is verbal communication, physical communication, and mental communication. Verbal communication is the ability to carry out a successful conversation without any interruptions. For instance, when a couple argues, it should be over a justifiable reason and not over something minute. If the couple argues over little things that should have been resolved before the conversation even occurred, then their relationship will soon collapse or lead to greater difficulties in the future. Physical communication is the physical contact needed to nourish the partners needs. For example, if the wife comes home from work and is feeling stressed out or had a bad day, the husband should be there to comfort her. Giving comfort to your partner will let them know that you are concerned about their situation. Mental communication is the ability to connect with your partner on a mental basis and be able to notice what irritates them. For example, if the husband is doing something the wife does not lik...
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...
Communication allows a relationship to grow and thrive by giving the partners an opportunity to share their dreams,
This is a short fragment liberated from my fanfiction Camp Adirondack. A quick explanation. Oliver and Elio are roommates at a summer camp Elio's a camper and Oliver is a counselor. They have crushes on each other and they've kissed, but they are trying to not act on it because Elio is a camper and only seventeen and he's not used to his sexuality.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.