As you can see, there are multiple questions to answer(each week,there will also

As you can see, there are multiple questions to answer(each week,there will also be many parts to answer), answer each question by having its own mini paragraph in your initial post
PART 1
Please address the following two questions and support your positions with research.
1. Do you think it is healthier to love someone because you need them or to need someone because you love them?
2. Is love a decision? Do we fall in love, grow in love, decide to love or a combination of all three?
You will want to read chapter 4 in your text in preparation for this discussion question. Please share with the class your research from other sources that you find helpful. PART 2 responses to two different classmates
PEERS1 14 hours ago
Morgan Brough Week 1 discussion
COLLAPSE
1. I think it is healthier to need someone because you love them. It is not healthy to love someone because you need them. I have never been married before but I have fallen in love, or what I thought was in love. I was having a very tough time mentally while I was dating my significant other. They were there for me at all times and I felt like I needed them in my presence at all time. As the relationship went on I noticed myself getting more and more attached and needing more attention. There were times when I wanted to break things off with him but at the end of the day I thought I needed him, so I stayed. It’s not a good feeling to be stuck in a relationship you know is unhealthy for you, but because you feel like you need them it makes it impossible. If one needs their significant other because they love them, I feel like that is a healthy way to depend on someone. You can be vulnerable but only because you love them. 2. Love is not a decision. I personally feel that love is an emotion and a feeling. Your heart and your mind are two different organs. Your mind may tell you that loving a specific person is not a good idea, but at the end of the day our hearts choose who we love. We may not always act on love but the feeling of love itself is uncontrollable. I can use one of my friends for an example of how love is not a decision. She grew up in a very strict family. When she was in high school she was having feelings of love towards another girl. She had never had such strong feeling for anyone, especially a female. After months of trying to get herself to fall out of love with that girl, there was no luck. She knew she would get in trouble with her family and tried to change but love is love and you don’t get to choose who you fall in love with.
PEERS2 sell Munoz wk 1
COLLAPSE
Hello everyone,
I have been with my significant other for almost 9 years in July. I have been with him since I was 13 years old and I am going on 23! I truly believe it is healthier to need someone because you love them. I say this because if you love someone solely on the reason “I need them”, does it really mean you love them? I have heard married couples talk about how they are together because “XYZ is the mother/father of my children” or “He or she is the main breadwinner in the household, but I still do my own thing” or “I need them because I need help paying the bills”. According to the Sternberg’s love types, these types of relationships are nonlove or empty love (Seccombe,2018). Nonlove relationships have little to no intimacy,passion or commitment (Seccombe,2018). However, in an empty love relationship are solely together due to the commitment, they also lack passion and intimacy (Seccombe,2018).
Now, when it comes to is love is a decision? I think so, I think it is a choice. I believe we fall in love, grow in love, decide to love all in one. This is because when we meet someone, we make the choice if we are going to text them back, make a date and so on.Then slowly, the feeling of liking arrives, we make good friendships with the person but no passion or commitment is found (Seccombe,2018). We become infatuated, constantly wanting to be with them, passion is all over the air. Growing in love, we decide to be exclusive, we share the compassion and intimacy. In the end, we fall in love, when we hit fatuous love, there is passion, and commitment (Seccombe,2018). Eventually, Fatuous love, romantic love, and consummate love will be all together. References
Seccombe, K. (2018). Exploring marriages & families (3rd ed). Boston, MA: Pearson
PART 3 Today the practice of marriage and family therapy is heavily influenced by systems theory.
What is systems theory and how does it impact how therapists view families?
Research this topic both in your textbook and in at least three additional sources.
Write a scholarly article in APA format containing 400 to 600 words.