Sentences with phrase «sort of romantic partner»

Regardless of the framing, if you're single - and - looking then you probably have an idea of the sort of romantic partner you're after.

Not exact matches

To avoid being mistaken for gay, these days many self - proclaimed straight people — men especially — settle for superficial associations with their comrades and reserve the sort of costly intimacy that once characterized such chaste same - sex relationships for their romantic partners alone.

We talk to friends and strangers online instead of in person, order groceries from a website, solve technological problems via chatbots, and sort through potential romantic partners by joining dating sites.

The cast is full of the sort of people you might expect, from producer Seth Rogen playing the film's script supervisor and de facto secret director, Paul Scheer as the DP and Alison Brie as Greg's romantic partner, with the likes of Jason Mantzoukas, Josh Hutcherson, Zac Efron and Zoey Deutch (among many, many others) filling out the world and this version of The Room's cast.

You can think of GuideVine as a sort of dating website, but with financial advisors instead of potential romantic partners.

How do you go from watching a partner being prepped for surgery or helping him or her to the bathroom to a place of intimacy and physical closeness of a romantic or sexual sort?

Researchers have linked the type of relationship we have with our caregivers (secure versus insecure) to the sorts of relationships we are likely to have with later romantic partners; secure early relationships are conducive to later secure relationships.1 It is typical for adults in secure romantic relationships to indicate that they feel supported by their partners and that their partners are central to their happiness and well - being.2 Further, securely attached adult relationships are even associated with greater physical and psychological health.2

The questions Peggy grapples with when she thinks about leaving her company are not that different from the sorts of questions that people grapple with when they think about leaving a romantic partner.

In New York, there's a certain insecurity among marriage and family therapists about the name of their discipline — both because the name implies that they only provide couples counseling and family therapy, but also because the concept of marriage therapy implies a sort of conservatism — after all, a therapist who works with romantic partners in NYC is unlikely to limit his or her couples therapy practice to those who are married.

They were advised to make a ranking in which the four targets (sibling, mother, father, and romantic partner) were sorted according to the strength of emotional connectedness to these persons.ii Low values (i.e., a high rank) indicate a high level of emotional connectedness of the participant to the target person.