Romantic relationships
Men Actually Crave Romantic Relationships More Than Women Do
Do you think women are more invested in love affair than men are? Rom-coms, TV commericals and women’s magazines may reinforce this stereotype, but psychological investigate is increasingly telling a different story: multiple studies have suggested that men may actually place greater importance on romantic relationships. Now researchers have identified a key behavioral factor that could explain this surprising difference.
Drawing on more than 50 studies of mixed-gender relationships, researchers at Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Minnesota and Vrije University Amsterdam proposed that men, compared with women, expect to gain more from organism in a romantic association and are thus more motivated to find a partner. According to multiple anonymous surveys, men also tend to experience greater mental and physical health benefits from being in a relationship, are less likely to initiate breakups, and struggle more with the emotional toll of a breakup, the researchers wrote in Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Elaine Hoan, who studies social psychology at the University of Toronto, says these observations a
The psychology of romantic relationships: motivations and mate preferences
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Introduction
This explore focuses on the motivational aspects of romantic relationships. We define romantic relationships as those based on the emotional and physical attraction that could direct to long-term intimate relationships. We focus on fresh people looking for love-related relationships, i.e., those who presently have no lovey-dovey partner but are interested in finding a boy/girlfriend. We strive to get what motivates young people to engage in affectionate relationships, how their idealistic motivations are related to the general motivational goals reflected in their value preferences, and whether quixotic motivations and values can predict the sought-after characteristics of the partner.
Our learn is based on the theory of human ethics (Schwartz et al., ; Schwartz, ). This general psychological theory presents a comprehensive system of human motivations corroborated as near-universal across different cultures (Schwartz et al., ; Sagiv and Schwartz, ). Numerous studies have demonstrated that values affect human cognition,
The Myth of Unconditional Cherish in Romantic Relationships
“I affection you no matter what.”
“You’re driving me crazy.”
“That is so thoughtful of you.”
“How could you do that?”
“I yearn to spend forever with you.”
“I can’t complete this anymore.”
“I want more time together.”
“I need space.”
How often have we said and heard these phrases? How often have we said and heard them within one relationship? For those of us who are painfully aware of what makes our loved ones difficult to inhabit with…what do we assess makes it hard to live with us?
“Relational Ambivalence” is the experience of contradictory thoughts and feelings—of love and hate, attraction and disgust, excitement and fear, contempt and envy—toward someone with whom we are in a association.
We experience it with our parents and our siblings. We feel the tug between the parts of us that are forever entwined with them and the parts of us that want to separate ourselves.
We exposure it with our children, those beings who tutor us a love we’ve never known as good as an unparalleled frustration that can incite harmful thoughts.
We experience it with our friends, the ones we don’t really wish to see but conclude up feeli
Every relationship represents a leap of faith for at least one partner, and even in the happiest couples, the very traits that once attracted them to each other can eventually become annoyances that drive them apart. Acquiring the skills to form a connection last is hard work, and threats may spring up without notice. In short-term, casual relationships, neither partner may see a truly viable long-term future together, but often only one takes action, in some cases ghosting the other, walking out of their lives with no communication, not even a text.
For some couples, infidelity is both the first and last straw, but a surprising number of relationships survive betrayal, some only to have their connection upended by everyday threats such as a deficit of interest in physical intimacy, or a fading of positive feeling in the wake of continual criticism, contempt, or defensiveness. Even staying together for decades is no guarantee that a couple will remain connected: The divorce rate for couples over 50 has doubled since
Some people can saunter away from years of marriage and instantly touch unburdened. For others, the end of a bond that lasted just a few dates can activate emoti
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