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Love Intimacy and Relationships
Love Intimacy and Relationships
Love Intimacy and Relationships
Society
GLADILYN GARCIA
Love, Intimacy
and
Relationships
Love, Intimacy and
Relationships
WHAT IS
LOVE?
Love
Love and the expression
of love tend to be many
different things to
different people.
Love
It is a culture universal. This means it is a phenomenon
experienced similarly by people across time, place,and culture.
• 4. Decline / Deterioration – While not all relationships go through this stage, there are
those that encounter misunderstandings or irreconcilable differences. These may range
from changes in the priorities, attitudes and values of each or both partners. This may also
be triggered by a stressor in the relationship that both partners cannot resolve.
Regardless, at this point, the partners have the option and agree to compromise, ignore the
concerns or consider the last stage.
• 5. Ending / Termination – If a couple cannot address the problems that caused the
relationship deterioration, the stages go on to terminate (via marriage dissolution,
collective agreement to separate, or in some cases, one partner simply leaving the other
behind).