Back to the Top Family Development Annotated Links Falling in Love and Marriage Meeting People and Dating requires strategy and planning. While we are remaining single longer in our society, at some point we hope these initial contacts will lead to an involved , love relationship. Love is a capacity that gradually develops from the infant's basic need for human contact. This need contiues to develop into a growing desire in childhood for contact with one's age mates or peers, and further develops into the inner need to know another intimately. Our American ideal of romantic love includes several myths, including love at first sight, love is blind, love conquers all , and the most misdirected, love is always passionate.
Love can be a wild, irrational, white hot thing at first.
It causes people to come together in the first place. It can be the stuff that binds our souls together. Americans are pretty good at falling in love , but many of us have a difficult time remaining in love over a lifetime with the same person. The links below deal with some of the ways love blooms, why love fails, and what can happen next. Family Economics Researchers claim that when married people fight and argue, they are most likely disagreeing over money.