Individuals often experience the human limitations of their partners, and develop a fear of adverse consequences of disrupted intimate relationships.Studies show that fear of intimacy is negatively related to comfort with emotional closeness and with relationship satisfaction, and positively related to loneliness and trait anxiety.
Companionate love involves diminished potent feelings of attachment, an authentic and enduring bond, a sense of mutual commitment, the profound feeling of mutual caring, feeling proud of a mate's accomplishment, and the satisfaction that comes from sharing goals and perspective.
In contrast, passionate love is marked by infatuation, intense preoccupation with the partner, throes of ecstasy, and feelings of exhilaration that come from being reunited with the partner.
The activity of intimating (making known) underpins the meanings of "intimate" when used as a noun and adjective.
The noun "intimate" means a person with whom one has a particularly close relationship.
There are three types of love in a relationship: passionate love, companionate love, and sacrificial love.