WEEK 6 DOMINGUEZ GUADALUPE
This week learning is focused on early and middle adulthood. Chapter 9 targets early adulthood, and how youth is been instituted into adulthood life. It also mentioned what circumstances can have an impact on physical development during this years. Sexual and gender roles are also discussed, dating is one of the main and most important practices. It was also referred to love and sexuality as a big part of searching for a stable relationship. Chapter 10 discusses factors that can have an effect on middle age people in a sexual, and intellectual ways. Also the outcomes of relationships during this years were elaborated on. On chapter 10 it is suggested that during these years a person's marriage can get stronger as well as parental and sibling relationships.
I will elaborate on Sternberg arguments on social development and marital practices along with parenthood. Sternberg proposed that early on adulthood every single person establishes their very own love story. He categorize them in five different groups; the travel story, the gardening story, the horror story, the business story and the pornography story. The travel story is that with the idea that a relationship is like an adventure that will have challenges and passion. The gardening story is that one that can be related to plants, if it is left unattended and not watered it will die. The horror story is that when a person wants to be dominant and rule over the other with at times using feelings of fright to get ones way. the business story can be described as the closes the best too keep things working properly. The pornography story is that dealing with the sexual aspect as the primary, it takes place when a person will do anything to please another person's sexual desires, and that summaries the love stories of Sternberg. Sternberg main ideas is that relationship face problems due to how each partner may have a different love story that may be very different to one another. Sternberg also developed the triangular theory of love . The theory is illustrated by using a triangular figure its components are passion, commitment and intimacy. Passion is defined as a physical appeal, intimacy refers to how close and communicative the couple is, while commitment deals more with the couples wiliness to overcome obstacles together.According to Sternberg the fullest form of love a person can reach is consummate love which is made up of all the three components. He also added other types of loves depending on the components.
Marriage and family have evolved over time, it is said that 95% of people marry at least one time during their lifetime and most of t he times it will be during early adulthood. The average age for people getting marry has rise over the years and for women it is 25 and men is 27. Cohabitation is a choice many are taking and it is the act of living together and sharing a house and even having children not been married. Also single parents families have been growing and 54% of Americans are married and live with spouses. Parenthood has also been shaped in the last decades, the birth rate for married women has declined and for unmarried women it has double.
I find Sternberg triangular theory of love very interesting and in accordance with reality. It is very true that all his three components are needed to have a perfect and satisfying love relationship. I like how he gave different types of loves and the components. I had never looked at love in this way but it makes sense and funny or not there is a lot of truth to it. I do personally believe that consummate love can be the best one we all want to reach but it is not always the case. I believe there is worst ones if that is the proper way to say it. I would say that fatuous love, romantic love and companionate love are also appealing, they are not that vague. I think that liking, empty love and infatuation are very fragile in my point of view. The triangular theory of love is not only very explanatory but has a lot of truth as well. I will have to say that yes indeed consummate is the ideal type of love but I think most people than we want acknowledge are trapped in any other type of love but that ideal one.
I will elaborate on Sternberg arguments on social development and marital practices along with parenthood. Sternberg proposed that early on adulthood every single person establishes their very own love story. He categorize them in five different groups; the travel story, the gardening story, the horror story, the business story and the pornography story. The travel story is that with the idea that a relationship is like an adventure that will have challenges and passion. The gardening story is that one that can be related to plants, if it is left unattended and not watered it will die. The horror story is that when a person wants to be dominant and rule over the other with at times using feelings of fright to get ones way. the business story can be described as the closes the best too keep things working properly. The pornography story is that dealing with the sexual aspect as the primary, it takes place when a person will do anything to please another person's sexual desires, and that summaries the love stories of Sternberg. Sternberg main ideas is that relationship face problems due to how each partner may have a different love story that may be very different to one another. Sternberg also developed the triangular theory of love . The theory is illustrated by using a triangular figure its components are passion, commitment and intimacy. Passion is defined as a physical appeal, intimacy refers to how close and communicative the couple is, while commitment deals more with the couples wiliness to overcome obstacles together.According to Sternberg the fullest form of love a person can reach is consummate love which is made up of all the three components. He also added other types of loves depending on the components.
Marriage and family have evolved over time, it is said that 95% of people marry at least one time during their lifetime and most of t he times it will be during early adulthood. The average age for people getting marry has rise over the years and for women it is 25 and men is 27. Cohabitation is a choice many are taking and it is the act of living together and sharing a house and even having children not been married. Also single parents families have been growing and 54% of Americans are married and live with spouses. Parenthood has also been shaped in the last decades, the birth rate for married women has declined and for unmarried women it has double.
I find Sternberg triangular theory of love very interesting and in accordance with reality. It is very true that all his three components are needed to have a perfect and satisfying love relationship. I like how he gave different types of loves and the components. I had never looked at love in this way but it makes sense and funny or not there is a lot of truth to it. I do personally believe that consummate love can be the best one we all want to reach but it is not always the case. I believe there is worst ones if that is the proper way to say it. I would say that fatuous love, romantic love and companionate love are also appealing, they are not that vague. I think that liking, empty love and infatuation are very fragile in my point of view. The triangular theory of love is not only very explanatory but has a lot of truth as well. I will have to say that yes indeed consummate is the ideal type of love but I think most people than we want acknowledge are trapped in any other type of love but that ideal one.
Glad you were able to highlight Sternberg so well. He is a less known theorists but his work on love is so perfect for adulthood. You are right to bring up the cultural changes of marriage when you stated, " The average age for people getting marry has rise over the years and for women it is 25 and men is 27." Current researchers in love would definitely need to consider the impact marriage has on love and the impact the increase in age has.
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