Chapter 11 - Committed Romantic Relationships
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 agape | love without regard to personal gain, combines eros and storge |
| commitment | the intention to remain with a relationship |
| committed romantic relationships | relationships between unique individuals who assume they will be primary and continuing parts of each other's lives |
| environmental spoiling | situations in which proximity breeds ill will |
| eros | powerful, passionate style of love that blazes to life suddenly and dramatically |
| intimacy | feelings of closeness, connection, and tenderness |
| ludus | playful love in which the lovers see it as a game |
| mania | manic or mad love; combines ludus and eros |
| passion | intensely positive feelings and fervent desire for another person |
| placemaking | the process of creating a comfortable personal environment that reflects the values, experiences, and tastes of the couple |
| pragma | pragmatic or practical love; combines storge and ludus |
| relational culture | the nucleus of intimacy; the private world of rules, understanding, meanings, and patterns of acting and interpreting that partners create for their relationship |
| storge | comfortable, even-keeled kind of love based on friendship and compatibility |
| dimensions of romantic relationships | passion, commitment, intimacy |
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