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📌 Friendship and love both depend on open communication, mutual understanding, respect, trust, sharing, care, support and encouragement, but friendship is generally open with multiple friends and group activities, whereas love is exclusive, usually pair-based and oriented toward a lifelong partnership or marriage.
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Friendship is open and multiple; love is exclusive and partnership-focused.
1. Which distinction best describes friendship compared with love?
2. Why is ending a love relationship generally more difficult than ending a friendship?
3. In Robert Sternberg's triangular theory of love, what does intimacy describe?
What qualities do both friendship and love depend on?
Open communication, mutual understanding, respect, trust, sharing, care, support, and encouragement.
How does friendship differ from love in social openness?
Friendship is generally open with multiple friends and group activities.
What characterizes love in terms of exclusivity and partnership?
Love is exclusive, usually pair-based and oriented toward lifelong partnership or marriage.
What is intimacy in Robert Sternberg's triangular theory of love?
The emotional part of love involving honest communication, acceptance, and trust.
Who proposed the triangular theory of love?
Robert Sternberg.
What does commitment represent in Sternberg's triangular theory of love?
The rational part of love involving willingness to share responsibilities and difficulties.
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