In recent years, a burgeoning literature has attended to transformations in notions of intimacy, romantic love and conjugality South Asia, challenged the depiction these processes as unilineal shifts from collective (‘traditional’) obligations individual desire (a symbol ‘modernity’). Picking up on themes, this article considers coexistence different modes intimacy middle-class urban Pakistan. ...

This pragmatic study examines love as a mode of communication. Our focus is on the receiver side: what makes an individual feel loved and how felt love is defined through daily interactions. Our aim is to explore everyday life scenarios in which people might experience love, and to consider people's converging and diverging judgments about which scenarios indicate felt love. We apply a cognitiv...

The tender intimacy and selflessness of a mother's love for her infant occupies a unique and exalted position in human conduct… It provides one of the most powerful motivations for human action, and has been celebrated throughout the ages—in literature, art and music—as one of the most beautiful and inspiring manifestations of human behaviour (Zeki, 2004). Mothers demonstrate a unique ability t...

The purpose of this article is to summarize a developmental, relational theory of personality socialization in the family and other settings. This theory consists of two assumptions about space and time, from which are derived two respective processes about the ability to love and the ability to negotiate. The contents of the theory consist of three modalities: Being, Doing, and Having. From th...

Americans are sentimental about love. In thinking about romance, we emphasize intimacy and caring: we like to view our lover and the relationship as unique. We tend to neglect a crucial aspect of love re1ations:hips-power. This chapter investigates the nature of power in dating ar~d marriage, and analyzes factors that can tip the balance of power away from equality. The traditional formula for ...