Title: (Sensitive) Describe the concept of love and its role in family formation.
Course: Family Relations (19259-18) > Section: Forming Committed Relationships Across the Lifespan

Description should include

- ways to distinguish love from infatuation
- realistic and unrealistic expectations of love
- definitions of different types of love (e.g., self-love, love of caregiver, love of peers, hero worship, romantic love, mature love)
- the relationship between love and the commitment to form a family.

Process/Skill Questions:

Thinking

- What factors influence beliefs and attitudes regarding love?
- What role does the media play in forming a person's ideas about love?
- What can happen when an idealized picture of romantic love does not endure?
- What are the most important distinctions between loving relationships and relationships based on infatuation?

Communication

- How might those in a relationship based on love handle problems?
- What communication skills can help people distinguish between love and infatuation?

Leadership

- What ethical standards will guide you in your decision to form a family?
- What might be the consequences of having unrealistic expectations about love and a loving relationship?

Management

- What resources are available to help people create or define loving, respectful relationships?
- What might you learn about yourself by evaluating your concept of love and the formation of a family?
- How might a loving relationship affect your relationship with other friends? Your schoolwork? Your relationship with your parents?