I, finally awarded and certified as a Dating Practitioner to provide personalised dating services by SDU - MCYS Singapore.
I liked to share with you this tropic of Sternberg's Triangular Theory of Love
There are 3 interconnected components:
Intimacy, Passion and Decision/commitment.
These components can be thought of as forming a triangle.
Intimacy component refers to the close, bonded feelings that exist within loving relationships.
Passion component referes to the drives that lead to physical attraction and sexual acts.
Decision/commitment component refers to the decision to lvoe someone and to maintain that love.
By combining these 3 components, Sternberg came up with 8 types of loving. These type are listed below :
Nonlove (Absence of all three components.)
Liking (Occurs when we just have intimacy, such as friendship.)
Infatuated Love ( Occurs when we only have passion, such as in love at first sight. This type appears quickly and disappears almost as fast.)
Empty Love (Occurs when we only have commitment, and is oftern the residual love that remains once the other types have faded.)
Romantic Love (On the other hand, is the combination of intimacy and passion. In this way, it involves both liking and physical desire for the other person.
Companionate Love (Is a combination of commitment and intimacy and oftern occurs in the later stages of a relationship after the passion has faded.)
Fatuous Love (Is a combination of passion and commitment, therefore lacking intimacy.)
Consumate Love (Is a combination of all three components. This is our society's ideal type of love, because it involves close friendship, physical urges and a strong commitment.)
Hope the above could help you in analyising the type of love you are in now.
"Don't find love, let love find you. That's why it's called falling in love, because you don't force yourself to fall, you just fall."
Enjoy it.
Cupid Mama