HDFS 1060 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Elaine Hatfield, Ellen S. Berscheid, Platonic Love
28 Sep 2017
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Attitudes towards love have varied in at least 4 dimensions: Nonsexual adoration of a person (platonic love) = admired. Purpose of marriage = to produce children, alliances, and a bloodline. Happiness or sexual pleasure = not part of the deal. Knights seek love as a noble quest. Marriage had nothing to do with romance. Serious matter of politics and property instead. 17th & 18th centuries result in a happy ending. Europeans began believing that romantic passion could occasionally. Individualism, economic prosperity, and lack of caste system/ ruling class contributes to our idea that love and marriage go together. Marry because of emotional attachments > economic concerns. Feelings of permanence, stability, and decisions to devote oneself to a relationship and work to maintain it. Each component varies in intensity from high to low. 3 different building blocks of love combine. Feelings of warmth, understanding, trust, support, and sharing. *any strong emotional need that is satisfied by one"s partner fits this category*
