PSYCH 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Psych, Social Rejection
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Strong feelings of longing, desire, and excitement towards a. Mutual understanding and caring to make the relationship succeed. Most cultures recognize the existence of passionate love. How it is regarded depends on culture. Compassionate love takes sustained work to build. For most couples, sex is most frequent during the first month and first year after their wedding and declines after that. Passion: emotional state characterizes by high bodily arousal. Intimacy: feeling of closeness, mutual understanding, and mutual concern. Passion and intimacy have different time courses over a relationship. Passion increases dramatically and then tends to decline steadily over time, whereas intimacy starts low and tends to increase over time. Sex in and out of marriage: married and single people envy each other. Partner knows their responses and loves them. Sex conforms to a stable and regular pattern of familiar. More time and energy on each sex act.
