Glencoe Making Life Choices Section 1 Infatuation or Mature Love? Chapter 18 Dating, Commitment, and Marriage 1 << BACK NEXT >> HOME Chapter Dating, Commitment, and Marriage 18  Section 1 Infatuation or Mature Love?  Section 2 How to Develop a Healthy Relationship Contents

Glencoe Making Life Choices Section 1 Infatuation or Mature Love? Chapter 18 Dating, Commitment, and Marriage 2 << BACK NEXT >> HOME Fact or Fiction? Is this statement true or false? If you think it is false, explain what is true. You can tell when love is real because it hits you in an instant, whether or not you want to be in love.

Glencoe Making Life Choices Section 1 Infatuation or Mature Love? Chapter 18 Dating, Commitment, and Marriage 3 << BACK NEXT >> HOME Content Vocabulary love infatuation mature love intimacy

Glencoe Making Life Choices Section 1 Infatuation or Mature Love? Chapter 18 Dating, Commitment, and Marriage 4 << BACK NEXT >> HOME Loving, close relationships with family and friends are extremely important. This chapter looks at love relationships from dating through commitment and marriage. love Affection, attachment, devotion.

Glencoe Making Life Choices Section 1 Infatuation or Mature Love? Chapter 18 Dating, Commitment, and Marriage 5 << BACK NEXT >> HOME The first step in learning how to have a strong, close love relationship is learning what one is. You may ask yourself, “Am I really in love, or is this just infatuation?” infatuation The state of being completely carried away by unreasoning passion or attraction.

Glencoe Making Life Choices Section 1 Infatuation or Mature Love? Chapter 18 Dating, Commitment, and Marriage 6 << BACK NEXT >> HOME Infatuation is an all-consuming desire for a partner. Mature love is a strong attachment to someone a person knows very well. Recognizing Infatuation and Love

Glencoe Making Life Choices Section 1 Infatuation or Mature Love? Chapter 18 Dating, Commitment, and Marriage 7 << BACK NEXT >> HOME Some relationships that begin as infatuation later develop into love. However, relationships built solely on infatuation usually end when the fantasies on which they are built fade away. Recognizing Infatuation and Love

Glencoe Making Life Choices Section 1 Infatuation or Mature Love? Chapter 18 Dating, Commitment, and Marriage 8 << BACK NEXT >> HOME Unlike infatuation, mature love requires intimacy. Recognizing Infatuation and Love mature love A strong affection for, and a deep attachment to, a person whose character the partner knows well. intimacy Being very close and familiar, as in relationships involving private and personal sharing.

Glencoe Making Life Choices Section 1 Infatuation or Mature Love? Chapter 18 Dating, Commitment, and Marriage 9 << BACK NEXT >> HOME Infatuation: –Develops at the beginning of a relationship –Is based on sexual attraction and fantasy –Is all-consuming and often exhausting –Makes each partner feel that they need the other to be complete Recognizing Infatuation and Love

Glencoe Making Life Choices Section 1 Infatuation or Mature Love? Chapter 18 Dating, Commitment, and Marriage 10 << BACK NEXT >> HOME Mature love: –Develops gradually –Is focused on warm affection, friendship, security, trust, and confidence –Is based on reality –Energizes in a healthy way –Accepts each individual separately Recognizing Infatuation and Love

Glencoe Making Life Choices Section 1 Infatuation or Mature Love? Chapter 18 Dating, Commitment, and Marriage 11 << BACK NEXT >> HOME ________ is affection, attachment, and devotion. Section Review: Reviewing the Vocabulary love Affection, attachment, and devotion.

Glencoe Making Life Choices Section 1 Infatuation or Mature Love? Chapter 18 Dating, Commitment, and Marriage 12 << BACK NEXT >> HOME A strong affection for, and a deep attachment to, a person whose character the partner knows well is called ________. mature love A strong affection for, and a deep attachment to, a person whose character the partner knows well. Section Review: Reviewing the Vocabulary

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