Passion, Intimacy, Commitment: the three main components of love (according to science)
American psychologist Robert Sternberg states that happy and healthy love relationships are based on these three crucial elements. Let's learn more about them, then.
Passion refers to the drives that lead to romance, physical attraction, sexual consummation, and related phenomena in loving relationships. The passion component includes the sources of motivational and other forms of arousal within its purview that lead to the experience of passion in a loving relationship.
Intimacy refers to feelings of closeness, connectedness, and bondedness in loving relationships. It thus includes total acceptance of the loved one and ignites those feelings that give rise, practically, to the experience of warmth in a loving relationship. The physical and psychological need and desire to spend as muc...