Experiencing passionate (but not companionate) love is correlated with experiencing jealousy in both men and women (Sprecher & Regan, 1998).

Intimacy, for example, can assuage the negative psychological impact of stress and facilitate self-disclosure (Laurenceau, Barrett, & Pietromonaco, 1998). Love has also been found to be related to patterns of sexual activity. People who are in love are more likely to give and receive oral sex, as well as to engage in sexual activity in general, compared to people who are not in love (Kaestle & Halpern, 2007). The presence of romantic love has been found to be associated with satisfaction

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L 4 in long-term relationships (Acevedo & Aron, 247 248 2009). Although passionate love typically wanes through the course of a relationship (Sprecher & 249 if a couple is able to sustain 250 Regan, 1998), 251 passionate love (for example, by engaging in 252 novel and arousing activities (Aron, Norman, 253 Aron, McKenna, & Heyman, 2000)), then relationship satisfaction will increase. Companionate love has been found to be a strong predictor of subjective well-being in both collectivistic and individualistic cultural samples, especially for 257 258 women (Kim & Hateld, 2004). Like passionate love, however, companionate love can also 259 260 decrease over time in relationships (Hateld, 261 Pillemer, OBrien, & Le, 2008). 254 255 256 262 Conclusion