TYPES OF LOVE RELATIONSHIPS

Robert Sternberg, a well-known psychologist believes that love in an interpersonal relationship has three basic components, namely, intimacy, passion and commitment, which are then combined together to form seven different types of love:

1. Non-love This love consists only of intimacy component. Among individuals who experience this kind of love interweave physical and emotional closeness. However, this kind of love usually only happens in the friendship.

2. Infatuation This is often called love at first sight. This love is likened to come from the eye and then down to the heart. Here perhaps you do not actually have the closeness that exists with the object of love. There is no emotional closeness that exists and also there is no commitment. That is why, infatuation easily arises and is also easily lost.

3. Empty Love In this affair there are only components of commitment. Lots of love-turned-love hollow as time passes. Relationship that at first feels warm and passionate, sometimes turns into a hollow because the components of intimacy and passion have faded.

4. Romantic Love Partners who engage in this kind of love would look like together because of the intimacy. In addition, they will also have a deep passion for each other. In this kind of love affair there is no commitment because it is often felt to curb the pleasure of love itself.

5. Companionate Love It could also be interpreted as faithful love. This kind of love relationship is often found in marriage or a relationship that had long been intertwined. In this connection, usually passion has faded. However, there are still inherent intimacy and commitment.

6. Fatuous Love It could be called blind love. Blind love can have a negative impact because it usually involves a sense of want to have a binding for each individual. In fact, it may no longer function relationship positive.

7. Consummate Love Love is the most perfect in the presence of components of intimacy, passion, and commitment. The commitment that exists in this love is based on mutual respect (because of the close relationship that is physically and emotionally), and also a desire to be with a very strong. This is what makes true love will be more durable than other types of love mentioned above.