Intimate Relationships and Lifestyles
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INTIMATE AND
LIFESTYLES
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PRESENTED BY:
ANDREA DEL PILAR RUBIANO GONZALEZ
ID: 402175
PRESENTED TO:
JAHEL JOHANNA MONJE BOTERO
UNIVERSITY CORPORATION GOD'S MINUTE
FACULTY OF HUMAN SCIENCES
NEIVA HUILA
2017
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION………………………………………….4
OBJECTIVES………………………………………………..5
General objective………………… …………………………….5
Specific objectives………………………………………..5
INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS AND STYLES OF
LIFE……………………………….……………………….7
CONCLUSIONS…………………………………………22
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES…………… …………2. 3
INTRODUCTION
• Relationships are connections between other people, whether emotional or sexual, there are
other forms of relationships such as friendship, work, love and family, among others. There are
heterosexual relationships, homosexual relationships, bisexual relationships are also classified as
premarital relationships, extramarital relationships or marital relationships.
• Relationships are important in people's lives since they influence emotions, behavior and the
lifestyle they decide to take. This work will show the trajectories of intimate relationships and
lifestyles of how they influence the people.
GOALS
• GENERAL OBJECTIVE:
• Know the types of intimate relationships and lifestyles
• Identify the types of relationships.
• SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES:
• Know the factors that influence intimate relationships and lifestyles.
• Know the importance of intimate relationships.
• Young adulthood is the time when people establish relationships that can continue for much of
their adult lives: relationships based on friendship, love, and sexuality.
• In such a changing society, friendships can come and go. In a freer society,
The same can happen with marital and sexual partners.
The Internet has given a new dimension to relationships. Those established online tend to be
weaker than those that are face-to-face.
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Internet users tend to be less socially involved, communicate less
with their family, and have fewer friends.
• Intimacy may or may not include sexual contact. A relevant element of intimacy is self-
discovery : “revealing important information about oneself to another.
• The need to establish strong, lasting, close and loving relationships is a powerful motivator of
human behavior.
• Strong emotions, both positive and negative, are evoked through intimate attachments. People
tend to be healthier, physically and mentally, and to live longer if they have satisfying close
relationships (Baumeister & Leary, 1995; Myers & Diener, 1995).
• As young adults enter college or the workplace, acquire responsibilities and make their own
decisions, they must complete the negotiation of autonomy that began in adolescence and
redefine their relationships with their parents.
• If young adults fail to resolve conflicts with their parents in a healthy way, they may find
themselves enacting similar conflicts in their new relationships with friends, colleagues, and
companions.
As they become independent, young adults seek emotional and physical intimacy in relationships
with peers and romantic partners. These relationships require skills such as self-awareness,
empathy, ability to communicate emotions, sexual decision making, conflict resolution, and ability
to sustain commitments.
• Work is a convenient source of social contact; Therefore, those who wear a lot
Long-term retirees have fewer social contacts than more recent retirees or those who continue to
work.
After retirement, as co-workers and other casual friends recede, most seniors retain a stable inner circle of
social “escorts”: close friends and family members, who represent ongoing social support and affect largely
your well-being for better or worse
• the elderly become increasingly selective about the people with whom they spend their time
time.
Older people form fewer close relationships than
younger people.
Much of the lives of seniors are enriched by the presence of long-
time friends and family members.
Friendship
• Friendships are an important part of life at every age.
• Friends provide companionship, someone to share activities with,
emotional support during difficult times, and a sense of identity and
history.
Women generally form more
intimate friendships than men
and find friendships with other
women more satisfying than
with men.
• Men are more likely to share
information and
activities, not confidences, with friends.
Friendships often revolve around work and parenting; others are based
on neighborhood contacts or voluntary organizations
Unlike younger people, many people in middle adulthood have little time and energy to devote to
friends; They are too busy with family and work and generating resources for retirement.
• Older people spend more active leisure time with friends, and the joviality and spontaneity of
friendships helps them rise above daily worries.
Adults over 85 who maintain friendships often call someone who
previously would have been considered simply an acquaintance a
friend.
The elderly enjoy the time they spend with their friends
more than the time they share with their families
(Antonucci and Akiyama, 1995).
• For adults, a loving relationship with a partner, of the same
or the other sex, is an essential element of their lives.
• Love has three phases or elements:
intimacy, passion and commitment.
Assortative mating : Just as people choose friends with whom they have something in
common, they tend to fall in love and marry someone very similar to them.
• Husband and wife often also have similar temperaments; those
who take risks
SEXUAL ORIENTATION
• • There are three sexual orientations : Homosexual Attraction towards individuals of the
same gender.
• Heterosexual
Attraction between individuals of
different genders
• Bisexual
• Attraction to members of any gender.
MARITAL LIFESTYLES
AND NOT MARITAL
• Current rules no longer require people to get married, stay married, or have
children, and at what
ages.
• People can remain single, live with a partner of either sex,
getting divorced, remarried, single parents, or childless; and options may change over the
course of adulthood.
FAMILY LIFE
• The vast majority of children grew up in traditional families with two married heterosexual
biological or adoptive parents.
• single parent families, gay and lesbian
families and families headed by
grandparents.
ADOPTION
• singles, the elderly, working class families and homosexual couples, have become
adoptive parents.
• Relationships between siblings are favorable throughout life between men and women.
• Stepsiblings and half-siblings are also likely to
maintain contact, depending on how long they lived
together during childhood.
GRANDPAREN
TS AND
GREAT- active parenthood ends.
Grandparenting begins before
Since women tend to live longer than men, grandmothers
usually live to see at least the oldest grandchild become
an adult and become great-grandmothers.
• Some become surrogate grandparents or volunteers in schools or hospitals (Porcino, 1983, 1991).
• Relationships are important because they define people's lifestyles, they are connections
that grow throughout life.
• During childhood we choose the types of relationships we create until old age.
• Some relationships last depending on the strength of how they were created.
• Relationships influence and define people's behaviors and emotions.
Bibliographic references
• Papalia, D. Adult development and old age, Mexico City, third edition. McGraw
hill.
