Senin, 09 Desember 2013

Triangular Theory of Love

            Humans are born with the desire to be loved and loving. But, love can not be the only reason to get married. It sounds romantic, yes, if there are couples who decide to get married as crazy about each other. However, the success of a marriage based on a strong friendship built by each strong spouse. Foundation including suitability for a marriage, trust, and communication. There is a triangular theory of love. Here's the explanation.
Love triangle in question here is not that often we hear of a third party in a relationship. Rather, the three components of love (triangular theory of love) by Robert Sternberg. Sternberg explains that there are three components of love, namely: intimacy, Passion and commitment.   
            1. Intimacy- The include feelings of attachment, closeness, connectedness, etc.     
            2.Passion- The covering between romantic love and sexual attraction.         
            3.Commitment- That decision to stay with friends for a long time.  
            Different combinations of these three components result in different types of love. For example, the combination of intimacy and commitment in compassionate love (compassionate love), while the combination of passion and intimacy lead to passionate love (passionate love).
Sternberg introduced the term perfect love (Consummate love) to describe the combination of intimacy, passion and commitment. Relationships are built on two individuals would be perfect if it is based on a combination of all three. Even so, Sternberg doubted the existence of perfect love in this world, how about you ?       
            There are several theories of love that we know and we have not learned. However, some theories of love that we have seen at least be able to explain about the love stuff that is considered "abstract".      

Reference :
Lee, JA (1973). Colours of love: an exploration of the ways of loving. Toronto: New Press

Robert J. Sternberg, "Triangulating Love", in T. J. Oord ed . The Altruism Reader (2007)  

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