Have you ever told yourself “I don’t love this person” or “love is gone”? Possibly it’s not that you don’t love that person… discover Sternberg’s 7 loves!
Have you ever told yourself “I don’t love this person” or “love is gone”? Possibly it is not that you do not love that person, but that you do not love him with a romantic love or the kind of love has changed over time.
There are different types of love and, according to Robert Sternberg, there would be 7 different types in couples which would be classified based on the level of representativeness of three dimensions: trust, passion and commitment.
1. Honey
Affection predominates the trust creating a climate of intimacy. This type of love allows you to maintain a good friendship, but it is not enough to generate a stable relationship since neither passion nor commitment would predominate.
2. Infatuation
It is commonly called “love at first sight”, in which there is only passion and physical attraction nothing else.
3. Crazy love
in this love we find passion and commitment but it is an unrealistic love with few roots due to the lack of trust that only time generates.
4. Sociable love
It is common to find this type of love in couples with a long journey when one has not known how to feed the passion and only trust and commitment remain.
5. Romantic love
Its components are the passion and confidence but lacks commitment.
6. Complete or consummated love
It represents the complete love, where we find trust, passion and commitment. It is really difficult to maintain it, usually leading to any other type of love with deficiencies in any of the three dimensions.
It’s a inert love where there is only commitment, only legal, but there is no trust or passion.
Find ourselves in a kind of love Deficiencies do not mean that we cannot generate complete love. Complete or consummated love is the result of the couple’s continuous work.
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