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Romantic relationship - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Addition, Adjunct, Affairs, Affiliation, Affinity, Alliance, Ancestry, Approximation, Assemblage, Association, Blood, Bond, Brotherhood, Combination, Connection, Consanguinity |
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Romantic love is a form of love that is often regarded as different from simply sexual love, or lust. Romantic love generally means both an emotional and sexual love, as opposed to Platonic love. There is more emphasis on the emotions than on the bodily pleasures and, as far as physical intimacy is involved, less emphasis on the intimate parts.
Western society has historically emphasized romantic love far more than other cultures in which arranged marriages are the rule. However, the globalization of Western culture has spread Western ideas about love and romance.
Romantic love is the idealization of another person, and of a relationship with that person. Other ideas of love have been advanced by several philosophers and have been popular in different cultures.
Properties of romantic love purported by Western culture that might not appear elsewhere include:
- It must take you by surprise
- It cannot be controlled
- It should be the basis for a lifelong commitment
- It is the highest form of self-fulfillment
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Example Usage of relationship |
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BookDads: Cicada Summer, story of one girl’s struggle with a terrible loss, & of her relationship with her single father. http://bookdads.com/EOgp |
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cocoalarica: @chattiicathii << thats suppose to be ya friend? went on talkin about how she couldnt stand her relationship N i said oh my thats no Friend |
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DramaticDavid: @Juls_W oooooh haha, yeah well the rumour is that Lloyd and Danyl are having a relationship! i think i can get away with saying that on here |
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