10 Types of relationships

10 Types of relationships & Dating:

What is a relationship?

A relationship is a bonding union between two or more people, that have certain things in common, likes and dislikes, interests, etc. A couple is the smallest social group considered an interpersonal relationship.

However, what stands out in this type of relationship is the fact that romantic love is involved. According to Dr.Helen Fisher, Anthropologist, and director of the research department at Rutgers University, in New Jersey, love can be broken down into three related brain systems. These are romantic love, sexual impulse, and attachment in a long-term relationship.

In her studies, she found that romantic love is not considered an emotion or a state on its own. Instead, it's an impulse that's a biological necessity for the survival of our species.

Similarly, the psychologist 'Robert Sternberg' claims that love has three main parts, that can help us to understand the different types of love and romantic relationships that are out there: commitment, intimacy, and passion.

While commitment tends to grow slowly over time, passion emerges quickly and intensely and then diminishes until it reaches a stable point or entirely disappears. Finally, intimacy is somewhere in between and usually develops at the same pace as the relationship.

These are the most common relationship types you'll want to know as you navigate the dating world:

1. Poly-amorous Relationships

That's why some choose to enter into poly-amorous relationships instead. When someone is poly-amorous, that means they have more than one romantic relationship at a time. Often, poly-amorous couples have a primary partner, a secondary partner, etc. with the understanding that these "rankings" can change as their individual needs do. Others treat every simultaneous relationship they are engaging in as perfectly equal. The key to any successful relationship, but especially poly-amorous ones, is honest and effective communication between all parties involved.

2. Monogamous Relationships

Monogamous relationships tend to be the first one people learn about as they are the most traditional, and usually the easiest for children to understand, who often see it exhibited by their parents. Those in monogamous relationships only have one sexual/romantic partner at a time. Most people who enter into "traditional" relationships and marriages do so because they want to be monogamous, though they don't always stay that way.

3. Long-Distance Relationships

A long-distance relationship is pretty self-explanatory, as they only occur when partners have a long amount of distance separating them. Due to the lack of physical intimacy caused by the couple's physical separation, some choose to open their relationship while they live far apart. While the "long-distance" part of this relationship type is often temporary, some couples choose to live happily ever apart indefinitely.

4. Casual Sex Relationships

In a casual sex relationship, both partners agree to have sex with each other on a regular basis — and that's it. Those in casual sex relationships can be physically and/or emotionally intimate with others as well, so long as both people are OK with it. Casual sex relationships can also be "exclusive" — meaning neither person sleeps with anyone else — which is similar to monogamous relationships, without the emotional connection.

5. Asexual Relationship

Some people are asexual, meaning they don't experience sexual desire or attraction to others, but they still want to participate in a romantic relationship. While asexual people often choose to date each other to create a purely asexual relationship, this is not always the case. When an asexual person and a sexual person enter into a relationship, it can take a few different forms, according to the Asexuality Visibility & Education Network. The couple can choose to be completely sexless, or the asexual partner can "compromise" by engaging in sex occasionally under certain circumstances, or partners can experiment with "pseudo-sexual behavior," such as cuddling, to find an arrangement that works for both. 

6. Open Relationships

In a way, open relationships are a hybrid of monogamous and poly-amorous relationships. While an open relationship allows both partners to share physical intimacy with anyone they want, they reserve their emotional intimacy for each other. So each person can have as many sexual partners as they want, but only one romantic partner.

7. 'Friends With Benefits' Relationships

A "friends with benefits" relationship is similar to a casual sex relationship, but with one important difference — an established, platonic friendship. Often, "friends with benefits" relationships begins when two friends agree to act on a mutual sexual attraction. Outside of the sexual relationship, the partners behave purely platonically. Usually, a 'friends with benefits' relationship ends when one or both partners start to date someone else.

8. Swingers

Swinger relationships involve partner exchanges. These involve a wide range of sex acts between heterosexual, bisexual, or gay couples in the same private location or home.

9. Semi-open or monogamish relationships

This is a mainly monogamous relationship most of the time, where intimacy or sex with others is permitted if both parties agree. Unlike open relationships, there are a lot of rules and limitations here.

Sexual relations with others aren't as common as in open relationships and tend to simply occur in accidental circumstances that aren't considered unfaithfulness by the couple.

10. Domestic partnerships

Domestic partnerships may happen for financial reasons, because of children, or interests. This type of relationship stands out from the rest since it involves two people that live together or are in a relationship but have almost separate lives -especially emotionally and sexually speaking.

References

Fisher, H. (2016). Anatomy of Love: A Natural History of Mating, Marriage, and Why We Stray (Completely Revised and Updated with a New Introduction). WW Norton & Company.

Sternberg, R. J. (1986). A triangular theory of love. Psychological review, 93(2): 119.

Proverbs From all Around The World

What is a proverb?

A proverb is a short, pithy saying that expresses a traditionally held truth or piece of advice, based on common sense or experience.

Nothing defines a culture as distinctly as its language, and the element of language that best encapsulates a society's values and beliefs is its proverbs.

 

This graphic shows the words that are used in English proverbs, with the size of each word indicating how often it occurs.

There are some proverbs of different cultures:

1.     The old horse in the stable still yearns to run. – Asian Proverb

2.     Instruction in youth is like engraving in stone – Moroccan Proverb

3.     Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. – Asian Proverb

4.     Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. – English Proverb

5.     Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone. – English Proverb

6.     A tree is known by its fruit. – Southern African Proverb

7.     A monkey in silk is a monkey no less. – American Proverb

8.     Even a small star shines in the darkness. – Finnish Proverb

9.     The path is made by walking. – African Proverb

10. There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. – Russian Proverb

11. A beautiful thing is never perfect. – Egyptian Proverb

12. Good advice is often annoying, bad advice never is. – French Proverb

13. Where love reigns, the impossible may be attained. – Indian Proverb

14. Before you score, you first must have a goal. – Greek Proverb

15. A bad worker blames his tools. – Australian Proverb

16. Don’t sail out farther than you can row back. – Danish Proverb

17. An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep – Arabic Proverb

18. After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box. – Italian Proverb

19. Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. – Swedish Proverb

20. Words should be weighed, not counted. – Yiddish Proverb

21. Do good and throw it in the sea. – Arabic Proverb

22. Truth is more valuable if it takes you a few years to find it. – French Proverb

23. A loose tooth will not rest until it’s pulled out. – African Proverb

24. Drop by drop you break the rock – Italian Proverb

25. The tree often hides the forest – French Proverb

26. Do not push the river, it will flow itself – Polish Proverb

27. Measure a thousand times and cut once. – Turkish Proverb

28. Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. – Spanish Proverb

29. If you take big paces, you leave big spaces. – Burmese Proverb

30. Turn your face toward the sun and the shadows fall behind you. – Maori Proverb

31. Better little than too little – Cameroonian Proverb

32. Tell me who your friends are, so I can tell you who you are – Bulgarian Proverb

33. Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched. – Australian Proverb

34. To be willing is only half the task. – Armenian Proverb

35. When the sun rises, it rises for everyone. – Cuban Proverb

36. No man can paddle two canoes at the same time. – Bantu Proverb

37. Age is honorable and youth is noble. – Irish Proverb

38. The tree with most leaves will not necessarily produce juicy fruit. – Brazilian Proverb

39. A mother understands what a child does not say – Yiddish Proverb

Other universal proverbs:

   1.     If you can't be good, be careful

   2.     If you can't beat them, join them

   3.     If you can't stand the heat get out of the kitchen Link to proverb

  4.     If you lie down with dogs, you will get up with fleas

  5.     If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys

  6.     Love of money is the root of all evil Link to proverb

  7.     Love is blind Link to proverb

  8.     Love makes the world go round

  9.     Love thy neighbor as thyself Link to proverb

  10. Love will find a way

  11. Never give a sucker an even break Link to proverb

  12. Never go to bed on an argument

  13. Never judge a book by its cover

  14. Never let the sun go down on your anger 

  15. Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.

  16. Once a thief, always a thief

  17. Once bitten, twice shy

  18. One good turn deserves another Link to proverb

  19. One man's meat is another man's poison Link to proverb

  20. One might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb

  21. One law for the rich and another for the poor

  22. The pen is mightier than sword Link to proverb

  23. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance

  24. The proof of the pudding is in the eating

  25. The road to hell is paved with good intentions Link to proverb

  26. The shoemaker's son always goes barefoot Link to proverb

  27. You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs

  28. You can't make bricks without straw

  29. You can't run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

  30. You can't take it with you [when you die]

  31. Attack is the best form of defense

  32. Bad money drives out good

  33. Bad news travels fast Link to proverb

  34. Bad penny always turns up

  35. Barking dog never bites

  36. Be careful what you wish for

Love most meaningful quotes

Love definition:

"You can transmute love, ignore it, muddle it, but you can never pull it out of you. I know by experience that the poets are right: Love is eternal."

The word "love" can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from pleasure to interpersonal attraction. It can refer to an emotion of a strong affection and personal attachment. It can also be a virtue representing human kindness, compassion, and affection—"the unselfish loyal and benevolent concern for the good of another". And it may describe compassionate and affectionate actions towards other humans, one's self or animals. In terms of interpersonal attraction, four forms of love have traditionally been distinguished, based on ancient Greek precedent: the love of kinship or familiarity, the love of friendship, the love of sexual and/or romantic desire, and self-emptying or divine love. Modern authors have distinguished further varieties of romantic love. Non-Western traditions have also distinguished variants or symbioses of these states. This diversity of uses and meanings, combined with the complexity of the feelings involved, makes love unusually difficult to consistently define, compared to other emotional states. Love in its various forms acts as a major facilitator of interpersonal relationships and, owing to its central psychological importance, is one of the most common themes in the creative arts.

Here are some of the best quotes about love, and by different authors and celebrities.

1.     There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. – George Sand

2.     Ain’t a woman alive that can take my mommas place. – Tupac

3.     Love me or hate me, both are in my favor… If you love me, I’ll always be in your heart… If you hate me, I’ll always be in your mind. – William Shakespeare

4.     Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

5.     Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage. – Lao Tzel

6.     If you judge people, you have no time to love them. – Mother Teresa

7.     Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. – Aristotle

8.     You’ll know when a relationship is right for you. It will enhance your life, not complicate your life. – Brigitte Nicole

9.     How can we not talk about family when family is all that we got. – Wiz Khalifa

10. How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. –Winnie the Pooh

11. The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege. – Charles Kuralt

12. Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back and reasons to stay. – Dalai Lama

13. 10 ways to love: listen, speak, give, pray, answer, share, enjoy, trust, forgive, promise. – Will Smith

14. Love with your heart, not your eyes. – Drake

15. Love is a human experience, not a political statement. – Anne Hathaway

16. We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. – Sam Keen

17. LOVE: The irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. – Mark Twain

18. We grew up with so much love in our family. – Payne Stewart

19. Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own. – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

20. Sometimes you wish you never met certain people, then you grow and realize that they were a gift in disguise and contributed to making you the person you are. – Omar Suleiman

21. When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace. – Jimi Hendrix

22. One of the best feelings in the world is knowing your presence and absence both mean something to someone. – Anonymous

23. How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard. –Winnie the Pooh

24. Embrace the love. – LeBron James

25. Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one. – John Keats

26. Love is keeping the promise anyways. – John Greene

27. You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together. – Nicholas Sparks

28. You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams. – Theodor Geisel

29. Love is just a word but you bring it definition. – Eminem

30. Love is never wrong so it never dies. – The Lion King

31. A little jealousy in a relationship is healthy. It’s always nice to know someone is afraid to lose you. – J Cole

32. Life without love, is no life at all. – Leonardo da Vinci

33. All that you are is all that I’ll ever need. – Ed Sheeran

34. There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved. – George Sand

35. I told her I was lost in this world, and she smiled because she was too. We were all lost somehow but we didn’t care, we had in the chaos, found each other. – Atticus

36. Love is what makes you smile when you’re tired. – Paulo Coelho

37. You need to love yourself and be yourself one hundred percent before you can actually love someone else. – Christina Perri

38. Don’t let the moment pass. Don’t let the people you love walk by you without letting them know how you feel about them, because life slips by, then it’s over. – Louis Litt

39. Let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. – Mother Teresa

40. I’ve been through it all and nothing works better than to have someone you love hold you. – John Lennon

41. Love is putting someone else’s dreams before yours. – Olaf

42. If a puss and dog can get together, why can’t we love one another? – Bob Marley

how to write a letter for bestie

Dear bestie,

     I honestly don’t know from where to start this off, I’m about to f*** and rape these papers, I just took my pen to write down the most realest emotional words, but believe me the pen is drawing exactly what my heart ordered it to. So without any further introductions let me try to express how do I see you…

To me you’re a magic box with great ideas! You can fix and solve problems quickly. You have amazing suggestions you’re rich of great tips in all fields except when it comes to sport haha! You’re articulate and creative. You’re inquisitive and well-read. You are someone who is always learning, always growing, always looking to better yourself.

Moving swiftly on another point, I see your body that has gone through a lot of difficult situations, through lot of pain, trust me every time I hug you; I try to do it as if I can bring the broken pieces of your body together. I see you happy with your sparkling beautiful eyes and you shiny hair. I see how always put your clothes together so you look good, even in a yoga pants and a shirt you still rocking to me.

I see someone who has a heart bigger than Africa, bigger than the United States, even bigger than my Penis ‘BIG ONE’ haha… I just see your beauty in and out.   

 I know that you feel weak at times. Powerless because of the chaos that you got involved to. Worried, sick, staying up at night wondering if you’re doing anything right. You’re so hard on yourself when something goes wrong. You feel overwhelmed, and sometimes, even like you’re drowning on a dark ocean. Drowning in ‘stuff’, in requests, in ‘I have to-do’, in reminders, in tasks, in, well—motherhood.         

  I see you as a multitask-er machine, someone who make sure to get all the important things done. You will always be the friend I can go to with anything—at any time. You will always make me laugh the hardest. Even if distance will try to fucked up us or No matter how long it’s been since we’ve spoken on the phone or how many days have passed since we’ve texted or how many months it’s been since I’ve gotten a real life in-person hug—- our friendship will always be strong, loyal, and most important—real.

Let me tell you something that I’m proud of myself at “as a friend definition”….Sometimes in life, you find a special friend. Someone who changes your life just by being a part of it. Someone who makes you laugh like a crazy. Someone who makes you believe that there still good in the world. Someone who convinces you that there really is an unlocked door just waiting for you to open it. This is forever friendship. When you’re down and the world seems dark and empty, your forever friend lifts you up in spirit and makes that dark and empty world suddenly seem bright and full. Your forever friend gets you through the hard times, the sad times and the confused times. If you turn and walk away, your forever friend follows. If you lose your way, your forever friend guides you and cheers you on. Your forever friend holds your hand, hugs you so tight till the broken pieces of your body comes together and tells you that everything is going to be okay. And if you find such a friend, PLZ you must feel happy and complete because you don’t need to worry. You have a forever friend and linguistically ‘forever’ has no end. THAT’S ME (proudly).

Aristotle once said “What is a friend? It’s A single soul dwelling in two bodies”, he was right though! Because that’s facts, I’m going to add another quote by JESS C.Scott who said “Friends are the family you choose”, I can relate to that because we don’t choose our families but Friends are the families we choose. And by bringing this to the table, I want to mention your friend too, that girl really loves you, she’s incredible, make sure to take care of her no matter what—no matter what…She chose you as her world and family and you did too, I can tell…