The Importance Of Love Relationships

Intimacy and friendship both help preserve ones physical and mental well-being. Friendship is the foundation for which a strong love relationship develops. When individuals become friends they share interests, values, trust, understanding, and enjoyment and this is the root from which love grows. The difference between the intimacy of friendship and love is that they each satisfy different needs. Romantic partners satisfy emotional support, money, sexual activity, and shared legal statues, whereas friends provide only emotional support.

Love is important because it satisfies the emotional needs of every human being and it’s essential to our lives. Love is what binds us together as families, friends, and partners. It’s the emotion that allows

The closer the friend, the closer the personal bond the two will have and the more they will self-disclose. However, there are gender differences when it comes to self- disclosure in same-sex friendships. For example, women express closeness with each other through conversation, disclosing both positive and a negative nature. Women expect their female friends to provide them with emotional closeness as opposed to their male friends. On the other hand, men show less affection toward their friends. They share less with each other, and don 't discuss personal problems as opposed to females. However, when conflict does happens in their friendship males tend to have an easier time resolving the issue. There are also gender differences when it comes to love. Men tend to fall in love more quickly than women. Due to that fact that men 's friendships don 't involve self-disclosure, when they find this quality in a love relationship they sense it as something special. On the other hand, since women are able to share their feelings they are less likely to be as quick to view their relationship as love. There are also gender differences in the connection between love and sex. Men view sex as a means of expressing their love, whereas for a female to feel loved requires more than just sex. There are also gender differences with reproduction. For males, the objective is to reproduce as much as possible, whereas for women, the objective is to see that each child they bear successfully survives to a healthy