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Rubin's Love Scale uses a questionnaire to assess attachment, , and intimacy. Rubin reported that couples with high scores maintained longer contact. love is a state of intense longing for union with another. Such love often includes both elation and gloom, exhilaration and misery.
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The two-factor theory of emotion states that arousal x = emotion. Thus any arousal can intensify passionate feelings provided one can attribute some of the arousal to a stimulus.
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Cultures vary in the importance placed on love. People who are high in tend to be less committed to deep and enduring relationships. Studies of men and women have also found that tend to fall in love more readily.
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love is the affection we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply intertwined. Such love thrives when a relationship is and mutually rewarding.
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Companionate love is most likely to endure when both partners feel it to be in that both receive from the relationship in proportion to what they have contributed to it.
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Intimacy is fostered by reciprocal in which we drop our masks and gradually let ourselves be known as we are. Couples who most reveal themselves to one another tend to express satisfaction with their relationship.
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Divorce risk is lower for those who marry after age , are well- , and are committed. As an alternative to divorce, some people cope with a failing relationship by exhibiting , optimistically waiting for conditions to improve. Others passively allow the relationship to deteriorate. Still others their concerns and take active steps to improve the relationship.





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