Differentiate between love and intimacy

What will be an ideal response?


Love relationships can last many years. As time goes by, love and relationships grow and change, and trying to maintain a sense of stability and continuity while still allowing for change and growth is probably the single greatest challenge of long- term love relationships.

Attaining intimacy is different from loving. We can love our cat, our favorite musician, or a great leader, but intimacy requires reciprocity—it takes two. Intimacy is a dance of two souls, each of whom must reveal a little, risk a little, and try a lot. In some ways, therefore, true intimacy is more difficult to achieve than true love because the emotion of love may be effortless, whereas the establishment of intimacy always requires effort.

Psychology

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Indicate whether the statement is true or false

Psychology

A _______________ is a measure of how strongly two variables are related to one another

a. relationship coefficient b. meta-analysis c. Bayesian statistic d. correlation

Psychology

____________________ occurs when a police officer is placed in a position where she might be tempted to break a law and monitored to see what she will do.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

Psychology

Piaget (1995|1937) documented the following event. Lucienne, Piaget's one-year-old daughter, was in the garden when she spotted Piaget about three feet away

Immediately thereafter, Lucienne's mother asked, "where is Papa?" In response, Lucienne turned and pointed toward Piaget's office window where she was used to seeing him. In this event, Lucienne's behavior could be viewed as a naturalistic example of ___. a. egocentric communication b. the A-not-B error c. centration d. the transformation error

Psychology