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Encyclopedia > Intimate relationship

An intimate relationship is a particularly close interpersonal relationship. It is a relationship in which the participants know or trust one another very well or are confidants of one another, or a relationship in which there is physical or emotional intimacy. Interpersonal relationships are social associations, connections, or affiliations between two or more people who may interact overtly, covertly, face to face or may remain effectively unknown to each other such as those in a virtual community who maintain anonymity and do not socialize outside of a chat room. ... The confidant character is usually someone the lead character confides in and trusts. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This subject is covered in some depth at Intimacy. ...


Physical intimacy is characterized by romantic or passionate love and attachment, or sexual activity. Romantic love is a form of love that is often regarded as different from mere needs driven by sexual desire or lust, or material and social gain. ... Limerence, as posited by psychologist Dorothy Tennov, is an involuntary cognitive and emotional state in which a person feels an intense romantic desire for another person (the limerent object). ... Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection or profound oneness. ... Attachment theory is a psychological theory about the evolved adaptive tendency to maintain proximity to an attachment figure. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...


Physical and emotional intimacy

Main article: Love

Some believe love is an important factor in physical and emotional intimate relationships. Though the term is notoriously difficult to define, any thoughtful inquiry into the subject will show it to be qualitatively, not only quantitatively, different than liking, and the difference is not merely in the presence or absence of sexual attraction. According to one analysis,[citation needed] love in relationships is divided into two types: passionate and companionate. Passionate love is intense longing, and is often accompanied by physiological arousal (shortness of breath, rapid heart rate). Companionate love is affection and a feeling of intimacy and is not necessarily accompanied by physiological arousal. Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection or profound oneness. ... Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection or profound oneness. ... This page is a candidate to be moved to Wiktionary. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into physical attractiveness. ... Romantic love is a form of love that is often regarded as different from mere needs driven by sexual desire or lust, or material and social gain. ... Sexual arousal is the process and state of an animal being ready for sexual intercourse. ... Companionate love is a form of love that combines friendship and commitment. ...


The intimate partners

Terms for partners in intimate relationships include

Friendship is a term used to denote co-operative and supportive behaviour between two or more humans. ... The confidant character is usually someone the lead character confides in and trusts. ... This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling. ... A family in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in 1997 A family consists of a domestic group of people (or a number of domestic groups), typically affiliated by birth or marriage, or by analogous or comparable relationships — including domestic partnership, cohabitation, adoption, surname and (in some cases) ownership (as occurred in the... A boyfriend is a male partner in a non-marital romantic relationship, or a male friend. ... A girlfriend is a female partner in a non-marital romantic relationship, or a female friend. ... Madame de Pompadour the mistress of King Louis XV of France. ...

See also

Close Relationships

Affinity • Attachment • Bonding • Cohabitation • Compersion • Concubinage • Courtship • Divorce • Dower/-ry • Friendship • Family • Husband • Infatuation • Intimacy • Jealousy • Limerence • Love • Marriage • Monogamy • Nonmonogamy • Office romance • Passion • Partner • Pederasty • Platonic love • Psychology of Monogamy • Relationship abuse • Sexuality • Spouse • Separation • Wedding • Widowhood • Wife This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Attachment in adults deals with the theory of attachment in adult romantic relationships. ... The term human bond, or more generally human bonding, refers to the process or formation of a close personal relationship, as between a parent and child, especially through frequent or constant association. ... “Living in sin” redirects here. ... Compersion is a term used by practitioners of polyamory to describe the experience of taking pleasure when ones partner is with another person. ... Look up concubine in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... For the record label, see Divorce Records. ... Dower (Lat. ... A dowry (also known as trousseau) is a gift of money or valuables given by the brides family to the grooms at the time of their marriage. ... Friendship is a term used to denote co-operative and supportive behaviour between two or more humans. ... A family in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso in 1997 A family consists of a domestic group of people (or a number of domestic groups), typically affiliated by birth or marriage, or by analogous or comparable relationships — including domestic partnership, cohabitation, adoption, surname and (in some cases) ownership (as occurred in the... Husband may refer to: the male spouse in a marriage a husband pillow. ... Infatuation is the state of being completely carried away by unreasoning passion or love; addictive love. ... Definition Intimacy is complex in that its meaning varies from relationship to relationship, and within a given relationship over time. ... Jealousy typically refers to the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that occur when a person believes a valued relationship is being threatened by a rival. ... Limerence, as posited by psychologist Dorothy Tennov, is an involuntary cognitive and emotional state in which a person feels an intense romantic desire for another person (the limerent object). ... Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection or profound oneness. ... This article or section needs copy editing for grammar, style, cohesion, tone and/or spelling. ... Faithfulness redirects here. ... Poly relationship (from polygamy, polyamory et al. ... An affair is a form of nonmonogamy. ... In psychology and common terminology, emotion is the language of a persons internal state of being, normally based in or tied to their internal (physical) and external (social) sensory feeling. ... Domestic partner or domestic partnership identifies the personal relationship between individuals who are living together and sharing a common domestic life together but are not joined in any type of legal partnership, marriage or civil union. ... In the past century, the term pederasty has seen a number of different uses. ... Platonic love in its modern popular sense is an affectionate relationship into which the sexual element does not enter, especially in cases where one might easily assume otherwise. ... The psychology of monogamy deals with the thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that commonly occur in monogamous relationships. ... Abuser redirects here. ... This article is about sexual practices (i. ... Marriage is a relationship that plays a key role in the definition of many families. ... Legal separation is a possible step towards divorce under United States law. ... Nuptial is the adjective of wedding. It is used for example in zoology to denote plumage, coloration, behavior, etc related to or occurring in the mating season. ... A widow is a woman whose spouse has died. ... For other uses, see Wife (disambiguation). ...

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SATISFACTION AND POWER IN INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS (3265 words)
Relationship satisfaction was assessed with a single 7-point Likert item on which subjects were asked to indicate how satisfied they felt when they considered all aspects of their relationship.
It was hypothesized that in intimate relationships: the more power one has in a relationship, the more satisfied they will be and the less power one has in their relationship, the less satisfied they will be.
The participants were then handed the questionnaire and were instructed to answer the questions pertain to their current relationship and if they were not in a current relationship to answer the questions pertaining to a past relationship and if they have not had an intimate relationship to answer the questions hypothetically.
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