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Tiziano Savard
I was very ready to write a very sarcastic opening to this review: the gall of series creator Liz Tigelaar to contend that the love between Baze and Cate, or the love between any of these characters, was unexpected. The show wears its heart on its sleeve, so we knew from the beginning that Cate and Baze shared a connection, and there were more than enough hints towards it being something more than just sexual tension along the way to make this finale all about Team Baze vs. Team Ryan in some circles.
A series of unexpected romances have arrived. Xu Nuo who has been suffering from alexithymia meets his match in bodyguard Ke Siyi. Elite variety show producer Liang Zhixiao encounters the goddess of hardcore combat while lawyer Zhou Yanxin crosses paths with a female boxer.
Kath couldn't ignore the flutter she felt whenever she saw Wren. There was something extraordinary about her, something Kath couldn't decipher. At a bonfire, as embers danced in the darkness, Wren confessed her love.
Wren confessed she was in love with a girl she met when she moved in. Was Wren referring to Kath? Indeed, she was referring to Kath. Wren leaned in, her lips meeting Kath's in a gentle kiss. Kath didn't pull away.
Wren proposed to Kath one day. With tears in her eyes, Kath accepted. Their wedding was a simple but beautiful ceremony, surrounded by close friends and family. They promised to love each other forever.
As wives, they built a wonderful life together. Their home was filled with laughter, love, and Oreo's playful barks. Their love story was a beacon of hope for many, showing love could be found in unexpected places.
Kath, Wren, and Oreo became a picture-perfect family. Their love story, filled with twists and turns, made their bond stronger. It was a testament to the fact that love could bloom in most unlikely places.
Wren brought light into Kath's life when all seemed dark. She taught Kath that sometimes, the most beautiful things grow from the darkest places. They lived a life filled with love, overcoming obstacles together.
Their days were filled with new adventures. They faced every challenge together, every victory felt like their own. Their story was a reminder that love can blossom even in the bleakest of times and is worth fighting for.
Kath, Wren, and Oreo continued to live their lives full of love and happiness. Their story was proof that love can bloom unexpectedly. And so, they proved that love indeed prevails in the most unexpected places.
Stassia is a senior in high school when tragedy strikes and her life changes forever. She has so many insecurities and anyone in her situation would probably feel the same. She experiences real struggles and emotions and as a character it is easy to connect with her. Dominic had also experienced more tragedy than someone should in his life. The two of them still have each other, they can grieve together, however, things shift. Emotions come to the surface that were suppressed. There is so much love and admiration between Stassia and Dominic.
"Love is not merely sexual desire nor a unique emotion but rather a motivational drive-like state," says Arthur Aron of State University of New York at Stony Brook, whose research involves the use of fMRI brain scans in understanding love. New research, being presented today at a conference of personality and social psychologists in San Diego, CA, is shedding light into the role romantic love plays in the formation, development, and maintenance of close relationships.
"From an evolutionary perspective, love binds romantic partners together for the long term and is associated with a wealth of positive relationship processes," says Jon Maner of Florida State University. Yet, love can also cause problems. "The more love one feels for one's partner, the more one has to lose if the relationship ends," he says. "It's all about protecting one's relationship."
Maner's research team set out to investigate just how love may sensitize people to relationship threats. In three experiments involving 130 people involved in long-term relationships, the researchers tested people's responses to attractive rivals. In one of the experiments, for example, they gave participants the opportunity to blast attractive rivals with painful, but non-injurous, blasts of white noise. In another, participants reviewed mock profiles for a student dating service and could then belittle attractive rivals.
To compare feelings of romantic love versus sexual attraction, researchers primed some participants in advance by having them write essays about times they had strong feelings of love for their partners and had some write either neutral essays or ones involving a time about sexual attraction to their partners. In each experiment, researchers found that people primed with feelings of love for their partner behaved more aggressively and belittled their rivals more. "This was especially the case for people who were chronically jealous and who worried about infidelity," Maner says.
Another recent study looking at love form an evolutionary perspective found that even when a partner chooses to say "I love you" depends on a cost-benefit analysis of the relationship and what best protects it.
Across six studies, Josh Ackerman of the MIT Sloan School of Management and his colleagues found that although people think that women are the first to confess love and feel happier when they receive such confessions, it is actually men who confess love first and feel happier. They also found that saying "I love you" makes the man in a couple feel most happy if the confession occurs before the couple has sex and makes women most happy if the confession happens after sex.
"This work shows that our intuitions are not always correct," Ackerman says. "When and why we express romantic love are guided by deep-seated motivations that are best understood in an economic framework. Love confessions are akin to economic resources that people use to negotiate evolved romantic interests." The studies were published in the June 2011 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Researchers are also finding that love can play a critical role in the health of long-term relationships and of the couples themselves. Lisa Diamond of the University of Utah studies the multiple levels on which individuals in romantic relationships influence each others' moods and physical functioning.
More information: A press conference on this research "Of Love and Valentines: What Evolution and Neurobiology Tells Us about Romance" takes place on Jan. 28, 2012, at the annual meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP). Provided bySAGE Publications Citation: The many unexpected sides of romantic love (2012, January 30) retrieved 25 December 2023 from -01-unexpected-sides-romantic.html This document is subject to copyright. Apart from any fair dealing for the purpose of private study or research, no part may be reproduced without the written permission. The content is provided for information purposes only. Explore further
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