Love relationship across decades: a love letters study
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https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v8i1.3234Keywords:
couples, loving relationships, transformations in the loving relationships, lettersAbstract
This study analyzes the loving relationships across the decades through the analysis of love letters. Loving letters written in the decades of 40-50, 70-80, and 2000 were selected and analyzed. Eight couples were chosen in an intentional way, and were considered that both should be original of countryside, and medium socioeconomic level. Two maintained relationship during the decades of 40- 50, three couples belonged together during the decades of 70-80, and last, other three couples of the decade of 2000. The analysis of the letters allowed visualizing that some sociocultural changes happened in the last decades, influencing directly in the loving relationships. There were many changes in these relationships since the decade of 40-50 to the present time, mainly in what they refer to the couple’s attitudes and the established communication among these.
Keywords: couples; loving relationships; transformations in the loving relationships; letters.
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