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Encyclopedia > Romantic relationship

Romantic love is a form of love that is often regarded as different from simply sexual love, or lust. Romantic love generally means both an emotional and sexual love, as opposed to Platonic love. There is more emphasis on the emotions than on the bodily pleasures and, as far as physical intimacy is involved, less emphasis on the intimate parts.


Western society has historically emphasized romantic love far more than other cultures in which arranged marriages are the rule. However, the globalization of Western culture has spread Western ideas about love and romance.


Romantic love is the idealization of another person, and of a relationship with that person. Other ideas of love have been advanced by several philosophers and have been popular in different cultures.


Properties of romantic love purported by Western culture that might not appear elsewhere include:

  • It must take you by surprise
  • It cannot be controlled
  • It should be the basis for a lifelong commitment
  • It is the highest form of self-fulfillment

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External Links

  • Romantic Getaway (http://www.romanticgetaway.org/)

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Romantic relationship - definition of Romantic relationship in Encyclopedia (193 words)
Romantic love is a form of love that is often regarded as different from simply sexual love, or lust.
Romantic love generally means both an emotional and sexual love, as opposed to Platonic love.
Romantic love is the idealization of another person, and of a relationship with that person.
TOWARD A LASTING ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP (PART I) (8994 words)
Most of the damage in romantic relationships occurs when for various reasons one of the partners conceals hurts and unhappinesses concerning the way he or she is being treated in the relationship.
Since there are different styles of romantic relationship, this problem does not come up when the parties' desires are in harmony on this score, as in a traditional marriage, where both agree the terms call for the man to work and the woman to take care of the home and the children.
Since a romantic relationship is the highest possible form of relationship, with the well being and happiness of each vital to the other, sharing is a natural consequence.
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