Social and Emotional Development in Early Adulthood

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Life structure: Is the underlying design of a person’s life: relationships with significant others and occupations.
Romantic Love: Entails finding a partner to share one’s life and dreams with. It enhances self-concept and well-being.
Passionate love: Is the stuff of the beginning of a relationship – the courting, sexual attraction. It declines as the partner becomes more known, less idealized.
Companionate love: Is formed with intimacy and commitment- as partners develop warm, trusting affection and offer care giving
Family Life Cycle: Is a sequence of phases in the development of most families. Early  adulthood, people live on their own, then marry and bear children
Traditional marriages: Involve a clear division of labor between husband and wife.
Egalitarian marriages: spouses relating as equals, with power and authority being shared