Love feelings can be more intense than desired (e.g., after a break-up) or less intense than desired (e.g., in long-term relationships). If only we could control our love feelings! We present the concept of explicit love regulation, which we define as the use of behavioral and cognitive strategies to change the intensity of current feelings of romantic love. We present the first two studies on ...

p u rpose: this study was conducted to determine the relationship between depression and anxiety with love among married peoples. m ethods: it was a post event study performed on 90 married peoples and the sample was randomly selected. married people were invited to volunteer by calling and they were entered to study after filling consent form. then participants were evaluated by demographic, b...

Objectives. This study examined how the love variables (intimacy, passion, commitment and the six love styles) are differences between genders and relationship stages. In addition, associations between love variables and relationship satisfaction among local romantic partners were studied. Method. Participants were eighty-two couples who have involved in a romantic relationship (dating or marri...

abstract nizar qabbani is known among arab poets as a poet of love and women. in fact these two words in the dictionary of nizar go out of the framework of definitions and restrictions that make it into the department of the collector and the inhibitor. he tried hard to find these adorable in this picturesque valley; but he did not know her way, however, may open doors to women. in the poems of...

Little is known about individual patterns of subjective well-being (SWB) over the life course. Therefore, we examine individual long-term patterns by making a distinction between the shape of the SWB pattern and its mean level. Further, in order to contribute to the discussion about the impact of personality and life events on SWB, we examine the effects of both factors on the mean level and th...

Romantic love is the catalyst behind the spread of the human life. The neurobiology of love embraces the hypothesis that what we call "romantic attachment" or "romantic love" may be at least in part the expression of biological factors. A corollary of this hypothesis states that it is possible to learn much about the nature of human love by studying the molecules involved in the expression of s...

In spite of an influx of Western propaganda concerning the superiority of marriages based on love, a 1994 opinion poll of 1715 adults in 5 urban centers in India found that 74% of men and women believe arranged marriages are more likely to succeed. Self-arranged marriages without the consent or participation of parents are rejected by most Indians due to the isolation from family support that ...