Definitions
Coping with Sexual Pressures
Stages of Intimate Relationships
Elements of Partnership
Potpourri
100
Affection, attachment, and devotion.
What is love
100
Messages from society, peers, and others that pressure people to be sexually active.
What are external pressures?
100
Something about the person catches your eye.
What is attraction?
100
We see the process of change as neccessary and desirable
What is growth?
100
Reproductive act between the sexes
What is sexual intercourse?
200
The institution that legally joins two people
What is marriage?
200
A person's biological urges towards being sexually active.
What are internal pressures?
200
You and the person enjoy activities together.
What is friendship?
200
We won't back out
What is commit?
200
Interruption of education and low infant survival rates
What are results of teen pregnancy?
300
To engage in social events designed to allow people to explore their compatibility.
What is dating?
300
The method used to cope with sexual pressures.
What is the STOP method?
300
You learn about each other's feelings and values
What is a close friendship?
300
Not one for the other, but each with the other
What is together?
300
the highest form of committment in our society
What is marriage?
400
Refraining completely from sexual relations with other people.
What is abstinence?
400
"T" in the STOP method
What is think about what is happening
400
Reveal faults = acceptance
What is an intimate friendship?
400
The rewards are present and we feel them today.
What is enriching?
400
Giving yourself time to grieve and filling your time with activities.
What are ways to cope with a breakup?
500
The state of being completely carried away by unreasoning passion or attraction
What is infatuation?
500
"P" in the STOP method
What is plan
500
Each partner developing socially, intellectually, emotionally, & spiritually.
What is mature love?
500
The person who finds ways to meet many of his/her own needs outside the relationship.
What is independence?
500
Differences in spending and saving habits, and lack of communication
What is conflict?
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