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I Love You Analysis

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“I Love You:” The Break Down
Cheril L. Tague
Brown Mackie College
“I Love You:” The Break Down
Lieven Migerode and An Hooghe composed “‘I love you’. How to understand love in a couple therapy? Exploring love in context” to show there are different ways to look at the way one feels about love. Many individuals seem to justify that love defines the relationship and in turn the relationship defines love. Love too many is not just an emotion but an actual thought process. As one will explore and focus on the consideration of love and love’s influences, exploring love in the phrase of ‘I love you’ may lead a therapist to consider built-in contradictions. There are many different forms to take into consideration when dealing with love such as: attachment, reflection, and conflict.
When understanding that attachment play’s an important role in a healthy relationship. One will be able to know if the love that they are feeling is considered a healthy love or a love that is just for one to feel suffice with themselves. Migerode and Hooghe (2012) state “we propose that attachment is part of the …show more content…

There is a better understanding of different aspects when someone uses the phrase ‘I love you.’ With this knowledge one my “become a part of a greater whole and being oneself are equally important. A relationship exists as a meeting of two people in which there is a need for unity and for individuality” (Migerode, Hooghe, (2012), p. 376). Migerode, Hooghe (2012) state that ‘love is multifaceted and probably ultimately not definable. In reducing it to the description of [attachment, reflection, and conflict] we are doing love a disservice’ (p. 384-385). There goes to show that in all actuality we may have a better understanding of what love is but there is always different ways to express and consider love. Each is to their

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