The Role of Physical Beauty in Relationships

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The young woman looks into the young man's eyes and realizes that they cannot get married and spend the rest of their lives together. They have absolutely nothing in common. They were just drawn together by mere physicality, and are not attracted to each other as a person because their backgrounds and personalities are far too incompatible. Questions begin to circulate on the role of personality in relationship, how much of a role does it play and why is it important to communicate clearly our personalities in a relationship? In today's society with all the need to look a certain way it seems that looks are all that matter. The purpose of my study is to determine if what's inside someone's heart and mind is more important than the way they look, dress, or act. It is believed by researchers that physical attraction plays a bigger role than people like to hope in their relationships with friends and lovers. The researcher is going to determine if love really exists or is it just an illusion people lead themselves to believe. In finding a friend or a life's partner does one really look for what they say, a great personality, or do they allow outside factors of looks, clothing, and friends to be their scale? There are many kinds of relationships and each type has a link of common grounds or understanding. These links are part of each others personalities, but without the trust and commitment within both personalities the relation is weak and will not hold its ground for long. "The mere sharing of information about ourselves, however, does nothing to create personal relationships. We tell intimate things to our doctors, priests or strangers we meet in trains and know we will never see again" (Gilbert, Paul. Human Relationships. B... ... middle of paper ... ...one another? How do people want to be perceived in a relationship? Which is more important brains or beauty? Works Cited Page Weisz, Carol and Lisa F. Wood. Social Identities and Friendships: A Longitudinal Study of Support for Social Identities. Volume 15 Number 4 of the Journal of Social Behavior and Personality. 2000. Shaver, P. Shwartz, J. Kirson, D. O'Connor, C. Emotional Knowledge: Further Explorations of a protype approach. 1997. Ackerman, Diane. Natural History of Love. Random House. New York. 1994. Buscaglia, Leo. Loving Each Other, the challenge of human relationships. SLACK, New Jersey. 1984. McConnel, Karen E. and Pamela D, Swan. Body Esteem and Body Shape Satisfaction. Volume 15 Number 4 of the Journal of Social Behavior and Personality. 2000. Gilbert, Paul. Human Relationships. Blackwell. Cambridge, USA. 1991.

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