with Actual Answers 2026/2027 Updated.
Dating - Answer Any occasion during which 2 people share their time
Romantic Attraction - Answer Characterized by a high level of emotional arousal, reciprocal
liking and mutual sexual desires
Process of Romantic Attraction - Answer In-love stage: people think about their significant
other about 30% of the time
2nd wave of passion: nearly obsessed with their significant other, thinking about them almost
100% of the time (can take away productivity at work, or school, and isolation from friends and
family)
These stages can last up to 2 years!!
Sternberg's Love Triangle - Answer Theory of Love: relationships can evolve into different
types of love (romantic love, companionate love, fatuous love and consummate love).
- Intimacy, passion and commitment
Five Love Languages - Answer 1) Words of Affirmation:
- verbal compliments, words of appreciation
- make someone feel worthy, wanted or loved
2) Quality Time:
- focused and full attention
- quality conversation, and activities done together
3) Giving Gifts:
- inexpensive or expensive, purchased or handmade, a gift of presence
- being available for a special event or lasting tribute
4) Acts of Service:
- housework, yard work, cooking dinner, buying the groceries
5) Physical Touch:
- as simple as a touch on the shoulder, or a hug
- passionate sex
Emotional Abuse - Answer consists of any behaviour that uses fear, humiliation, or
verbal/physical assaults to control another human being
, Signs of Emotional Abuse - Answer - attempting to control various aspects of your life
- frequently humiliating you
- wanting to know where you are at all times
- becoming jealous or angry
- trying to coerce you
Physical Monogamy - Answer exclusive physical experience with one's partner and can include
kissing, vaginal intercourse, oral sex, and anal sex
Emotional Monogamy - Answer sets boundaries around emotional connections and affairs
with others outside the primary relationship
Social Monogamy - Answer the perception of being monogamous by others (monogamous=
exclusive sexual involvement with only their partner)
Serial Monogamy - Answer Where a committed monogamous relationship is entered into until
the relationship ends and another monogamous relationship begins
Open Relationship - Answer partners agree to sexual involvement with others outside of their
primary relationships
Polyamory - Answer There is an acceptance of having intimate relationships with more than
one person at a time, with knowledge and consent from everyone involved
Cohabilitation - Answer Living together without being married (common-law couple after
living together for at least 3 years)
Benefits of Cohabilitation - Answer 1) After living together for 12 consecutive months (and
both parties have been working and contributing to the Canadian Pension Plan) they can
request a division of CPP benefits
2) Divide debts equally
7 Factors that Determine whether people are cohabiting - Answer 1) Shelter
2) Sexual and Personal Behaviour
3) Services
4) Social
5)Societal