How do I love thee? Let me count the ways: parenting during adolescence, attachment styles, and romantic narratives in emerging adulthood.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways of responding and regulating.

Romantic love conceptualized as an attachment process.

This article explores the possibility that romantic love is an attachment process--a biosocial process by which affectional bonds are formed between adult lovers, just as affectional bonds are formed earlier in life between human infants and their parents. Key components of attachment theory, developed by Bowlby, Ainsworth, and others to explain the development of affectional bonds in infancy, ...

How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways for Syllabic Variation in Certain Poetic Forms

Synopsis The Dekaaz poetic form, similar to haiku with its constrained syllable counts per line, invites a connection between poetry and mathematics. Determining the number of possible Dekaaz variations leads to some interesting counting observations. We discuss two different ways to count the number of possible Dekaaz variations, one using a binary framework and the other approaching the count...

Measurement of adult attachment: the place of self-report and interview methodologies.

John Bowlby’s (1979) proposal that ‘attachment behavior is held to characterize human beings from the cradle to the grave’ (p. 129) has spawned a large body of research applying principles of attachment theory to adult love relationships. A central and commendable goal of Shaver and Mikulincer’s target article was to provide a means of bridging the conceptual gap between two lines of research w...

Identifying the Components of romantic attachment of positive HIV couples: A Qualitative Study

Introduction: AIDS is one of the most important socio-medical issues worldwide and can be used to identify attachment components within interpersonal relationships from the unique perspective of HIV-infected couples. The purpose of this study was to identify the components of romantic attachment in couples with human immune deficiency virus [HIV]. Methods: This is a qualitative study with induc...