- 25/11/2012
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There are many topics of my interest such as love, cohabitation, divorce, marriage, working women, extramarital affairs, child-rearing practices and many others, but I would like to concern my discussion on one topic. I would like to discuss the topic of love in this paper, but it is necessary to mention that I want to discuss it from the position of young adult.
Love is a feeling for all times and for all ages and at the same time love is a temporary madness. When I was young adult I was thinking about love and my favorite love quote said by Elizabeth Barrett Browning was in past and is now: “I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.” Undoubtedly, I think that such wonderful feeling plays an exceptionally important role in forming of personality of man during the whole life. In psychology there is a concept about love as about harmonic combination of sexual need and psychological closeness. For the adult person in love sense of physical pleasure at a sexual closeness and need of psychological intimacy usually meet together. Comparing and contrasting my feelings and gender theories it is necessary to mention that for young adult, as it was also in my case, these necessities and feelings are disconnected, that puts aside an imprint on person’s psychology and behaviour. A concept about the “pure” elevated love in young adult age very often does not coincide with a concept about a sexual closeness.custom term paper
Thus, basing on all above presented information it is necessary to say for the conclusion that the same thoughts could be find in Zucker’s, Ostrove’s and Stewart’s articles, where authors confirm similar positions and argue own statements with concrete examples. For the end of this paper I want to add my one more favourite love quote by Oscar Wilde “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.”
References
Lampert, A. (1997). The Evolution of Love. Praeger.
Shanahan, M. (2000). “Pathways to Adulthood in Changing Societies: Variability and Mechanisms in Life Course Perspective.” Annual Review of Sociology.
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