Relationships

Question 1

Types of Love Relationships:

Answer 1

• Non-love: co-worker
• Liking (intimacy alone): intimacy is closeness, familiarity, friendship
• Infatuation (passion alone): puppy love
• Empty love (decision/commitment alone): i.e: we’re just staying married until the kids grow up
• Romantic love (intimacy and passion): more than a friend, not just sex
• Companionate Love (intimacy and decision/commitment): friendship, marriage, no passion
  Fatuous love (passion and decision/commitment): a lot of sex but not intimacy
  Consummate love (intimacy & passion & decision/commitment): ultimate a little bit of everything

Question 2

Knapp’s Relational Developmental Model

Answer 2

A theoretical model to map the progression of an interpersonal relationship between two parties.
The relational Development Model identifies 10 different stages divided into
3 overlapping phases: Coming together , Relational maintenance, Coming apart (movement is not necessarily progressive).