When is the right time to say "I love you" in a relationship? So often these days people are saying it faster and faster in their relationships. When do you know you are in love? In my previous relationships I've told 3 people I loved them. Did I love them all? No, two of them yes definitely. But I can't remember how far into the relationships I said them, well I do but I don't remember why I felt it was the "right" time to say them. Does that mean I didn't really love them? I don't think so.. I find myself in a new relationship, we've been together for around 3 months and I'm getting some serious feelings for him. But i'm not sure that I love him, yet. I definitely know that theres the potential there.
Since I've changed my major I've been taking some different classes, one in particular Marriage and Family in the Global Context. And I've just finished studying a chapter on love, passion, and commitment. It basically teaches various ways of defining those 3 words and the different doctors that came up with ways to evaluate them, a very interesting chapter I might add. Here's a little something from it.. "According to Robert Steinberg, the intimacy, passion, and decision or commitment can be combined in eight ways, with these combinations forming the basis for classying love:"
Since I've changed my major I've been taking some different classes, one in particular Marriage and Family in the Global Context. And I've just finished studying a chapter on love, passion, and commitment. It basically teaches various ways of defining those 3 words and the different doctors that came up with ways to evaluate them, a very interesting chapter I might add. Here's a little something from it.. "According to Robert Steinberg, the intimacy, passion, and decision or commitment can be combined in eight ways, with these combinations forming the basis for classying love:"
- Liking (intimacy only)
- Romantic love (intimacy and passion)
- Infatuation (passion only)
- Fatuous love (passion and commitment)
- Empty love (decision or commitment only)
- Companionate love (intamacy and commitment)
- Consumate love (intimacy, passion, and commitment)
- Nonlove (absence of intimacy, passion, and commitment)
2 comments:
WOW! I've never thought so much about love! I would have no idea where I would fall in that category...I also have no idea when I said I love you to Adam, maybe after a month.?? Who is this new guy?
haha :) We will have to talk later! Call me when u get some time!
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