Need an argumentative essay on Theories of Love. Needs to be 7 pages. Please no plagiarism.Download file to see previous pages... Discussion During 1970s, a scale of love consisting of thirteen love i

Need an argumentative essay on Theories of Love. Needs to be 7 pages. Please no plagiarism.

Discussion During 1970s, a scale of love consisting of thirteen love items was created by Zick Rubin to conduct a research on the term he recognized as romantic love (ROECKELEIN, p.314, 1998). Rubin believes that love is an attitude that one individual has towards another and this attitude encourages one individual to exhibit certain behaviour, think in a certain way and have certain feelings for the other individual. Through his research, Rubin identified that there are four different kinds of feelings that one individual can have for another. These feelings include: caring, having the feel of need to have the other, enduring the other and having faith in them. Caring refers to an individual’s want to help another person in every way possible to solve the issues faced by them. Having the feel of need to have the other person refers to an individual’s desire to be present with the other person and to be cared for by the other individual. Enduring the other refers to an individual’s act of accepting all the positive and the negative sides of the other person and having faith in other refers to the act of having confidence in each other and expecting that one will stand up for another person at all times. Through his research he identified that the feel of caring was most important for romantic love as compared to enduring, trusting and needing the significant other (JAMES, p.200, 2008). Robin even identified that romantic love comprises of three elements including: care, intimacy and attachment. During 1987, Philip Shaver and Cindy Hazan conducted a research called love as attachment. they came up with the attachment theory (HOWE, p.40, 2012). In this study they conducted research on the similarities between the attachment that infants have with significant other and love that adults have with their significant others. According to Ainsworth, there are three different kinds of bond between the caretaker of an infant and the infant (MERCER, p. 40, 2006). First kind of infant-caretaker bond is one in which an infant gets easily attached to any caregiver and does not experience difficulty while detachment, in second kind of bond, an infant experiences severe issues while detachment with their caregivers and in the third kind of attachment, infants never get attached to any of their caregivers. Hazan and Shaver concluded that individuals love in the same pattern as they used to become attached to caregivers in early childhood. Their study showed that those adults, who had the first kind of attachment in their infancy stage, find relatively easy to get involved with others and their description of their attachment is of trust, those who experienced second kind of attachment had an expectation of rejection in adulthood and their description of their romantic love relationship was volatile and those who experienced the third kind of attachment in infancy, experienced difficulties in getting involved in any romantic love relationships and described their relationship as lacking trust and integrity. There are various faces of love, different kinds of love comes in different volumes and intensity. Two different kinds of love are recognized as romantic and compassionate love, romantic love is even recognized as passionate love. These two kinds of love were identified by Berschied and Walster during 1978 (COX, p.84, 1978). Romantic love is based on sexual attraction, infatuation.