Attachment Style And Relationships

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The three dimensions of love are passion, intimacy, and commitment. These three dimensions of love will be briefly summarized and explained on how they interrelate to a specific type of relationship. Passion can be explained better by referring to it as lust. One person may have a strong attraction to another person sexually, which is considered lust. Romantic love is mainly based on passion because sexual desire is more important in this type of a relationship. If a relationship is based only on the passion that one has for another the relationship will, most likely, end. Relationships need to have honesty and trust in-order to have happiness. For example, when two people meet and have a strong sexual attraction they tend to spend time holding each other, kissing, having sexual intercourse, and rarely have meaningful conversation, which in turn causes a barrier for the relationship to become anything else other than lust. Intimacy is a very important to have in a relationship. When a couple carries intimacy in their relationship they have a very strong emotional connection and carrying for one another. A couple of, this sort, will have a lot of trust in one another. They build this by having long conversations about important needs and feelings that one another have. One will speak while the other listens and accepts the other one’s feelings about a subject. An example of this would be when a couple has been dating for a while and one is stressed about something, or has a strong opinion about something, and they sit and have an intense conversation about the subject with one another. Having strong intimacy in a relationship is very important for a couple to have a strong connection, which can lead to a long and happy relationship. Commitment is an extremely important dimension to have in a relationship for it to be successful because it is the dedication that

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