The Power of Love and RelationshipsPSY 301 Social PsychologyInstructor: Dana DillardFrancine MorenoDecember 16, 2013When I was a young girl in elementary school, I developed a friendship with a girl who lived a block from me. We started visiting each other every day. Sleeping together, riding the bus together, and even sitting together during lunch. We developed a friendship that could not be broken. It didn't matter that I was African American and she was Caucasian, her entire family made me feel like I was one of them. Even though I didn't know much about anything and didn't really know what family meant, I learned it from his family. She taught me how to line dance and I grew to love her strange, peaceful, loving music called country music. It had a way of making you happy when you were depressed. We formed a bond and became best friends, she was the only friend I had and I remember when her other friends came to visit I got a little jealous because I thought they would take it away and I would be all alone again so I became far away. She was a very good friend and somehow she knew what was bothering me without even having to say anything, so she told me not to worry, we will always be friends and that it's nice to have more than one best friend. She was so wise for her age that I thought to myself. Growing up, my mother, siblings and I left town and I lost connection with her, but thanks to increased technology like Facebook, we reconnected. I believe attraction played a major role in our friendship. Our friendship began on the school bus, on the way home from school. A few bullies started picking on her because of her freckles and middle of paper...or her expression of wants and needs. Passion is not necessarily stable in relationships, it cannot be controlled but you can feel how much you feel for someone. The last element is the decision/commitment which can be a short term commitment, the decision to love a particular person or a long term commitment which is the decision to stay with someone for the long term. We control the amount of commitment we have in a relationship, which is important in a long-term relationship (Feenstra, 2011). In short, there are several different factors to consider when it comes to love and relationships. We now know that it all starts with all the pull factors. We build bonds from these factors which can eventually turn into love and relationships. It doesn't hurt to sincerely show care and concern for a stranger, because that stranger might one day become a friend..