1. Chapter 12
Love and Commitment

2. Chapter Overview Love and Commitment Divorce and Its Consequences
The Divorce Experience
Single-Parent Families
Remarriage
Love and Commitment
Adjusting to Intimate Relationships
Sharing Responsibilities
Communication and Conflict
Making the Relationship Better
Sexuality
Changes Over Time
Love and Intimacy
The Ingredients of Love
Love and Close Relationships
Commitment
Cohabitation
Marriage and Other Committed Relationships

3. Chapter Summary Love and Intimacy Commitment The Ingredients of Love
Love and Close Relationships
Commitment
Cohabitation
Marriage and Other Committed Relationships

4. Chapter Summary cont’d
Adjusting to Intimate Relationships
Sharing Responsibilities
Communication and Conflict
Making the Relationship Better
Sexuality
Changes Over Time

5. Chapter Summary cont’d
Divorce and Its Consequences
The Divorce Experience
Single-Parent Families
Remarriage

6. The Ingredients of Love Love
Love and Intimacy
The Ingredients of Love
Love
Involves deep and tender feelings of affection for or attachment to one or more persons.
…overlaps somewhat with friendships.
…involves greater exclusiveness and emotional involvement.
…can involve more ambivalence, conflict, distress, and mutual criticism than friendships.
…involves more willingness to give our utmost for partners.
The Ingredients of Love:
Love involves deep and tender feelings of affection for or attachment to one or more persons.
Intimate relationships such as love overlap somewhat with friendships.
Love, however, involves greater exclusiveness and emotional involvement.
Thus, love relationships contain more ambivalence, conflict, distress, and mutual criticism than friendships.
Love also involves more willingness to give our utmost for partners.

7. Types of Love Love and Intimacy cont’d
ROMANTIC LOVE: The strong, emotional attachment to a person of the opposite sex and, on occasion, the same sex.
PASSIONATE LOVE: An intense emotional reaction to a potential romantic partner who may not even love you in return (i.e., head-over-heels feeling).
COMPANIATE LOVE: A loving but practical relationship based primarily on emotional closeness and commitment rather than physical or sexual intimacy.