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Secure Attachment Style
Adults who have positive views of relationships, find it easy to get close to others, and are not overly concerned or stressed out about their romantic relationships
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Avoidant Attachment Style
Avoidant individuals are hesitant about getting involved in romantic relationships and once in a relationship tend to distance themselves from their partner
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Anxious Attachment Style
These individuals demand closeness, are less trusting, and are more emotional, jealous, and possesive
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Consensual Validation
Our own attitudes and behaviorss are supported and validated when someone else's attitudes and behaviors are similar to our own
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Matching Hypothesis
States that altough we prefer a more attractive person in the abstract, in the real world we end up choosing someone who is close to our own level
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Intimacy
Self-disclosure and the sharing of private thoughts
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Romantic love
Also called passionate love or eros, romantic love has strong sexual and infatuation components and often predominates in the early period of a love relationship
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Affectionate love
Also called companionate love, an individual desires to have the other person near and has a deep, caring affection for the other person
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Consumate love
Which involves all three dimensions
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Infatuated
An affair or a fling, with little intimacy and commitment in the relationship
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Affectionate love
A relationship marked by intimacy and commitment but low or lacking in passion
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Fatuous love
When passion and commitment are present but intimacy is not
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Cohabitation
Refers to living together in a sexual relationship without being married
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Rapport talk
is the language of conversation; it is a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships
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Report talk
is talk that is designed to give information, which includes public speaking
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