Just as we
are different and unique people in the world, we also find different types of
couples around us, because love and relationships do not all live in the same
way.
Some
because they are very independent, others because they can not separate one
minute from the other, we assure you that when you see the different types of
couples you will probably identify more than one around you. Know them!
What is a
couple's relationship?
Under what
criteria can we say that there are different types of partners? As much as they
seem obvious, it necessarily depends on what we consider to be a couple and our
idea of relationships. Some people give more value to love and friendship, as
others to loyalty and others to independence, so it can become a very
subjective subject.
We can take
into account the principles of the triangular relationship theory formulated by
Robert Sternberg as the fundamental components of a relationship. These are
intimacy, passion, and commitment. The truth is that at the end of the day, the
only thing we all want is to love and be loved.
Currently,
our society has evolved in its conception of love and relationships and has
resulted in types of couples with different preferences regarding their
relationship and their way of living love. Perhaps in our attempt to explore
love and, in general, our way of life in a free and different way from what was
traditionally done for centuries, where we did not always see happy couples and
happy people, we discovered that we can have other types of couples
The 6 types
of contemporary couples
In our
current world, there are different ways of understanding love and living our
relationships. The roads are many in our search for love and the couple; Some
may endure, others may not, and in the future, we may see new ones.
For now,
these are the types of contemporary couples we find according to their
relationship.
1.
Monogamous
Monogamous
couples are the type of traditional couples, which are still the vast majority
today. They are two people who love each other, commit themselves to each other
and are loyal to each other, both on the sentimental level and on the sexual
plane. That is, and redundant as it sounds, are a couple in which only fit two
people, so that the appearance of a third person sexually or effectively in the
life of either of the two, is considered infidelity.
2. Polígamas
This is a
type of open couple that although it can be a bit controversial for the more
traditional ones, they exist and it is quite common. In this type of
relationship, we find a couple who is exclusively loved, but who allow their
sexual life to be separated from that exclusive love and therefore, they allow
themselves to have sexual relations with other people without this being
infidelity.
3. Polyamory
When we
talk about polyamory, more than a specific couple, we talk about several
because of the following: people who believe in polyamory maintain sexual and
effective relationships with different people and affirm that they love them
all and that each one of them the links is important and involves a commitment.
In this
sense, those who base their relationships on polyamory believe that you can not
love only one person because our heart is home to many relationships at the
same time. It is one of the types of couples and types of relationships that
has grown the most in contemporary society.
4. Hybrid
couples
A new term
has finally been accepted to call this type of couples in which two forms of
relationships are mixed : on the one hand there is one of the people who make
up the couple, who feels totally happy to be monogamous; On the other hand, the
other person wants to have a relationship of polygamy or even a polyamory.
It is a
relationship in which both are comfortable and agree with it. In general, in
couples formed by a man and a woman, the woman is usually the one who is
monogamous and the man who needs other sexual or sexual and effective
relationships.
5. Swingers
Swingers
were among the first types of couples who began to incorporate polygamy into
their relationships many years ago. It is about relationships of a couple in
which two people share exclusively the affective bond and are allowed to
incorporate new people in the sexual plane, as long as it is consensual.
In
principle, you might think that it is polygamy, but the difference is that
sexual relationships with another person outside the couple are in a consensual
place and stipulated only for that, in which are the two people of the couple,
without this means that they become trios.
