Romantic Partners

Some articles on romantic, romantic partners:

Attachment In Adults - Extending Attachment Theory
... applied attachment theory to adult romantic relationships ... and Shaver noticed that interactions between adult romantic partners shared similarities to interactions between children and caregivers ... For example, romantic partners desire to be close to one another ...

Famous quotes containing the words partners and/or romantic:

    “What exacerbates the strain in the working class is the absence of money to pay for services they need, economic insecurity, poor daycare, and lack of dignity and boredom in each partner’s job. What exacerbates it in upper-middle class is the instability of paid help and the enormous demands of the career system in which both partners become willing believers. But the tug between traditional and egalitarian models of marriage runs from top to bottom of the class ladder.”
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