... oneself for the sake of the other person. Intimacy is the union and bond between these two individuals. Rubin suggested that the difference between liking and loving is liking's emphasis on evaluating the other person. A person only likes another person if they think that they are good intellectually and morally, and therefore worth their respect. Through empirical procedures, Rubin has developed scales measuring love and liking, which provided support for his theory. Hatfield, E., & Walster, G. W. (1978), suggested that there were two basic types of love, passionate love and companionate love. Passionate love is a state of intense longing for the union with another and a state of profound physiological arousal. Companionate love is the affection we feel for those with whom our lives are deeply entwined. It is suggested that passionate love, based on a "human biophysiological system" that is shared with other primates, is a ...

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