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Love Lines Level 2
Level 2 Negative Sheets and Rationales
Term | Definition |
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Attachment Hunger | If an infant feels neglected while initial attachments are being formed, this can create a working model for adulthood where the adult's attachment hunger results in clinging to relationships to recreate bond missing from primary caregiver. |
Coercive Power | Based on the ability of one partner to punish another. |
Commitment Issues | Occur when externals factors like religious beliefs, promises, children, finances, and parental or social pressure bind people in relationships instead of personal desire. |
Communicative Aggression | Includes recurring messages that function to impair a person's preferred self-image. |
Dysfunctional Relationship Beliefs | Harmful illusions about romantic relationships that yield destructive outcomes. |
Inappropriate Pursuit | Occurs with repeated and unwanted physical or cyber contact that constitutes an invasion of privacy and threatens another person’s safety. |
Infidelity | Refers to any behavior that breaks the contract that two people have with each other. |
Intimate Betrayal | Includes intentionally hurtful actions inflicted by one relational partner on another, such as deception, disloyalty, and/or infidelity. |
Manic Love | Possessive, demanding, worried, and preoccupied. |
Perpetual Conflicts | Recur because they are not easily resolved. Perpetual conflicts are triggered by (perceived) incompatibility, scarce resources, or disagreements about perceptions, roles, rules, goals, or patterns of communication. |
Physical Violence | Inflicts pain, injury, and/or suffering. |
Relational Trauma | Stress so great and unexpected that it cannot be defended against, coped with, or managed. |
Relational Uncertainty | Includes feelings of doubt about the nature of a relationship. |
Relationship Inequity | The imbalance of rewards and costs exchanged between partners. |
Secrecy | Occurs when a partner keeps information to him or herself that would negatively impact the relationship. |
Sexual Abuse | Nonconsensual sexual activity. |
Spillover | Poses that the emotions, affect, and mood from the parental relationship spill over into the broader family, disrupting the children’s sense of emotional security. |
Wedging | Occurs when a person deliberately interferes in a romantic relationship to wedge him or herself between partners. |