Love for oneself, or self-love, is essential for our social and emotional development.

Men are more interested in sex than in love.

Researchers have proposed that adult love reflects the outgrowths of attachment behavior between an infant and its parent.

One of the strengths of the attachment and adult love studies is that the studies are longitudinal.

Parents who are highly involved in their children’s lives produce children with high self esteem.

Self-disclosure refers to an open communication of thoughts and feelings.

Commitment to a relationship can be healthy or unhealthy.

In the "wheel theory of love," during the self-revelation stage the partners confide in each other, make mutual decisions, and bolster each other’s self-confidence.

Some observers have criticized the clockspring explanation of love for ignoring the variations in intensity among the stages of a relationship.

The major components of the "triangular theory of love" are intimacy, passion, and self-disclosure.

We should all strive to find a "perfectly matched" partner as described by the triangular theory of love.

Ludic lovers may consider suicide because of real or imagined rejection.

Men seem to fall in love faster and are more romantic than women.

The "feminization of love" refers to ignoring the ways that men show affection and love.

Break-ups are generally less painful in same-sex relationships than in heterosexual relationships because they are based on sex rather than love.