The Feather Pillow Horacio Quiroga

Those with insecure attachments tend to have lower relationship satisfaction compared to those who are securely attached. Those who have a secure attachment style provide a caregiving role, their behaviors are responsive and sensitive, non-controlling and show interest during interactions. Secures are affectionate with touch, enjoy physical contact (intimate & sexual) and are willing to ask for support. Individuals with an insecure anxious attachment are more self-focused and always looking for approval and support from their partner regardless of low and high stress situations. Anxious attachment individuals are also over caring and hyper vigilant. Lastly, individuals with an avoidant attachment value independence and have low levels of self-disclosure. Avoidant individuals are less likely to use touch to express affection and are uncomfortable with intimate sexual contact. In short, being aware of your attachment style and your partners can shed light on marital conflict and possible solutions and corrective behaviors to better marital

I also did my report on feathers as well. I think that it is so cool that feathers as something that is special to you. I didn't realize that the Native Americans thought that the feathers themselves had spirits in them. I found it very interesting when I searched the same topic that these feathers had to be earned. Also in order to get these feathers the person who did the brave deed had to go in front of the courts to tell them what happened and so that they could receive their feather. The pictures that you had in your report really helped tie it all together.

Throughout our lives, many of us crave and strive to be loved and cherished. Many find purpose and happiness when they share reciprocated affection with another person. Heartbreak often occurs when what we wished for in a relationship is not returned in the same manner. Miranda in “Sexy” by Jhumpa Lahiri felt this at the end of her relationship with a married man named Dev. He had treated her unlike anyone else before. This caused her to believe their relationship meant the same to him as it did to her, despite him being married to another women. Mr. Kapasi in “Interpreter of Maladies” found affection towards a woman who was cold towards her family, but was warm and showed great interest in him. He had started to believe she was different

In Horacio Quiroga’s short story, “The Feather Pillow,” he writes about a young woman and bride, Alicia, who gets ill suddenly and unexplainable, and quickly progresses towards her death. Alicia’s death is caused by a monstrous creature that lives in her pillow. The monstrous creature feeds itself with Alicia’s blood day by day, and finally takes Alicia’s life away. The story begins with a recently married couple, Alicia and Jordan, who live together now in a nearly empty house. Alicia has an unconditional love towards her husband, but her husband doesn’t express his feelings and emotions to her. Suddenly, Alicia’s health gets weaker, and she gets ill. Alicia’s illness progresses day by day. Alicia begins to hallucinate, and neither the doctors

In the movie Casablanca, directed by Michael Curtiz, two different kinds of love are exposed. The love relationship between Ilsa Lund and Rick is a more passionate relationship while the one between Ilsa and Victor Laszlo is more intimate. Love is composed of different feelings and because of that it can be expressed, as seen in Casablanca, in different ways. “The Intimate Relationship Mind”, a text by Garth J. O. Fletcher and Megan Stenswick, helps support that claim providing a scientific background on how love is shaped by those different feelings. It says that “love is composed of three distinct and basic components that each represent evolved adaptations; namely, intimacy, commitment,

The preoccupied attachment style is characterized by low fear of closeness and high fear of abandonment. Individuals classified as preoccupied have a negative model of themselves. Because preoccupies see themselves as unworthy of love and unsupportive, they tend to “strive for self-acceptance by gaining the acceptance of valued others” (Bartholomew, 227) and would do everything to keep people in their life; Preoccupied individuals try to avoid any kind of conflict in order to make themselves loveable and others happy. Despite the fact that preoccupies often see others as trustworthy and available, they also feel that others do not care about them as much as they care about others.

To begin, as in Quiroga’s frightening story The Feather Pillow an exploration of the love and care between husband and wife is displayed. When talking about her husband, Alicia is concerned. Where she should would feel love and appreciation she feels “[...] chilled by her husband’s rough character” (Quiroga 1). Lacking to show love towards Alicia, Jordan is directly impacting her mood, which in term keeps her in a bad physical state. Letting her feel this way and continuing to act “cold” shows how much care he truly has. In order to go further, Alicia describes her loveless situation and her lack of comfort in her own home the narrator continues to mention “It is not strange that she grew thin. She had a light attack of influenza that dragged

Intimate sentences are sentences that can connect with the reader on a private and personal level. “Your mother hollers that you are going to miss the bus. She can see it coming down the street. You don’t stop and hug her and tell her you love her. You don’t think …

When amongst friends, however, they are very expressive and animated, use direct eye contact, and frequently use touch to communicate. Most interactions are very close due to smaller personal space requirements. For these reasons, touch by trusted caregivers is often appreciated.

Touch: touching another person can send signs of care, love, power or sexual interest. You should think before touching someone in a health and social care environment as it could come across as inappropriate. If you give a child a hug when they are upset in a nursery or hospital this shows that you are caring and trying to make them feel better, but if a adult hugged a teenager this may come across as too intimate. You can use this in health and social care when you are in a care home and a client is feeling lonely and upset and you give them a hug they would appreciate that and not feel offended by it , as long as it’s appropriate and you have their permission to touch them.

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Social attraction is very important in romantic relationships, if your significant other does not like your friends or they do not get along, this could be a deal breaker and end of the relationship. The study was to determine which distinctive nonverbal practices were related to romantic enthusiasm for an attractive person and if these practiced contrasted as a component of relationship status and self- reveled love for one’s significant other. Impersonation was directly connected with the romantic enthusiasm for the person, impersonation was negatively connected with the self- announced love for one’s significant other. This recommends that impersonation capacities to flag favored social distance. While positive nonverbal actions such as grinning, smiling, vocal enjoyableness rose as critical affiliative nonverbal practices. The results show that impersonation of another is a relationship-support instrument, which is expressed unexpectedly, nonconscious, and automatically. People use their nonverbal behavior to show that they are available to others (Farley, S. (2014). This study shows how one’s social perception of a partner affects their

man’s hand quivers when he hears his wife cry displays that he genuinely cares for her. The wife reacts in a surprising manner, “the strange low sobs… Were called into her” (Meredith 4-5). Before the husband tries comforting her, the wife is crying in their bed. However, when the husband does try and do so, she stops crying and is surprised. This specific action proves that she cares enough about her husband to respond to his attempt to console her. The fact that the wife is surprised that her husband is trying to console her demonstrates that she believes that he does not care for her, even though as shown previously, he indeed does. The husband and wife are victims of modern love, as it promotes a false image that debunks their

In chapter 9 Looking Out, Looking in by Ronald. B. Adler, Adler informs us about intimacy in close relationships. The four dimensions of intimacy are physical, intellectual, emotional, and shared activities, and it’s quite often that a majority of relationships exhibit all four of these dimensions, while others exhibit one or two. According to research Masculine, and feminine styles can demonstrate how women are shown to be more willing to share their feelings, than men. An abundance of cultures influence intimacy, and the notions of public and private selves have changed dramatically. Collectivist cultures generally do not reach to outsiders, although they often wait until they are introduced before entering a conversation. Individualistic

Vulnerability plays an important role in any relationship. People need to feel needed. They need to feel they fill a special place in their partner’s lives that no one else can. They want to be missed when they are gone and celebrated when they return. Women forget the men have these feelings and the men forget women have these exact same feelings. One