Talk:Intimate relationship
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I find the "Chinese don't value passionate love" thing to be deeply racist -- because if you have even a small understanding of Chinese literature you'd find great importance attached to "passionate love" in Chinese culture. More generally, I dispute the coherency of the claim in its current form that any culture ("western", "Chinese", "sub-Saharan") somehow privileges passionate or compassionate love over the other kind. I propose the offending passages be struck. 68.74.116.145 07:49, 30 December 2006 (UTC)Chicago.
- Racist? Well, perhaps. I think that is arguable. But it is entirely unsupported and has been awaiting a citation for 6 months, which is about 5 months too long. I'll delete it. NCdave 04:14, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
This article looks like a stub. This article was brought up on Talk:Boyfriend as an article to move the non-dictionary parts of boyfriend/girlfriend on to. Any comments about this?? 66.245.91.223 21:16, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
I brought it up because I just created it as a place for information about intimate relationships, an area thats recently gotten some attention in social psychology. It shouldn't be too hard to make encyclopedic; an introductory social psych textbook that I have has several pages on the subject.
--Johnkarp 22:16, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
And what the hell is a lovemap? Where do I purchase one of those? The author should stick with the science, and skip on the poetry.
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[edit] Intimacy and sex
One can have an intimate relationship with purely platonic friends of either sex. It is not "usually characterized by romantic or passionate love and attachment". Intimacy is knowing some-one very well indeed, being their confidante or whatever. Someone has now linked Mistress to this page, which is even more misguided. Giano | talk 21:14, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
- You are certainly correct, Giano. Sexual intimacy is just one type of intimate relationship. Close friends, accountability partners, family members, etc., all have intimate relationships. I'll correct the article. NCdave 03:07, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Conflict Style Inventory
What Conflict Style Inventory has to do with Intimate relationship? --202.63.227.38 12:48, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Wouldn't one be able to have an intimate relationship with a husband or wife perhaps?
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Wouldn't one be able to have an intimate relationship with a husband or wife perhaps?
[edit] Merge with Intimacy
When I get around to doing more work on Intimacy I propose to merge this Intimate relationship stub into Intimacy or vice versa. I think one of them has to be redundant. I can see more mileage using the intimacy article because Intrapersonal communication as a basis of intimacy seems to fit marginally better there than here. Interpersonal relationship is the other sensible place for the material in this article to appear as a sub heading. Any comments?--Ziji 06:59, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
