Romance or romantic love is a feeling of love for, or a strong attraction towards another person, and the courtship behaviors undertaken by an individual to express those overall feelings and resultant emotions.
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21 Facts About Romantic love
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Conception of romantic love was popularized in Western culture by the concept of courtly love.
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Romantic love was to echo shades of this to all women, regardless of class, age, or status.
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Unrequited love can be romantic in different ways: comic, tragic, or in the sense that sublimation itself is comparable to romance, where the spirituality of both art and egalitarian ideals is combined with strong character and emotions.
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Unrequited love is typical of the period of romanticism, but the term is distinct from any romance that might arise within it.
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Girard, in any case, downplays romance's individuality in favor of jealousy and the love triangle, arguing that romantic attraction arises primarily in the observed attraction between two others.
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Anthropologist Helen Fisher, in her book Why We Love, uses brain scans to show that Romantic love is the product of a chemical reaction in the brain.
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Fisher uses MRI to study the brain activity of a person "in Romantic love" and she concludes that Romantic love is a natural drive as powerful as hunger.
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Romantic love proposes that the links between love and desire are bidirectional as opposed to unilateral.
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Romantic love has explored the evolutionary rationale that has shaped modern romantic love and has concluded that long-lasting relationships are helpful to ensure that children reach reproductive age and are fed and cared for by two parents.
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Singer first defined Romantic love based on four Greek terms: eros, meaning the search for beauty; philia, the feelings of affection in close friendships, nomos, the submission of and obedience to higher or divine powers, and agape, the bestowal of Romantic love and affection for the divine powers.
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Researchers have determined that romantic love is a complex emotion that can be divided into either passionate or companionate forms.
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Passionate Romantic love is an arousal-driven emotion that often gives people extreme feelings of happiness, and can give people feelings of anguish.
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Companionate Romantic love is a form that creates a steadfast bond between two people, and gives people feelings of peace.
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Researchers have described the stage of passionate Romantic love as "being on cocaine", since during that stage the brain releases the same neurotransmitter, dopamine, as when cocaine is being used.
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Romantic love theorized that love is a combination of three main components: passion ; intimacy ; and commitment.
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Romantic love theorized that the different combinations of these three components could yield up to seven different forms of love.
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Studies on Sternberg's theory Romantic love found that intimacy most strongly predicted marital satisfaction in married couples, with passion being an important predictor.
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Further, their experience with Eastern concepts of love caused them to believe that positive emotions, cognitions, and relationships in romantic behaviors all drive the expansion of a person's self-concept.
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Romantic love used physiological and behavioral measures during couples' interactions to predict relationship success and found that five positive interactions to one negative interaction are needed to maintain a healthy relationship.
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Romantic love established a therapy intervention for couples that focused on civil forms of disapproval, a culture of appreciation, acceptance of responsibility for problems, and self-soothing.
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