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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 21 March 2019
- ISBN 9780190639778
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages384 pages
- Size 155x231x25 mm
- Weight 544 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Emerging adults are taking a longer time to construct their identities, including commitment to partners, and they are doing so in the context of an unpredictable, shifting global economy with a paucity of guidelines to inform their choices. While popular wisdom suggests they are narcissistic, entitled, easily distracted, self-absorbed, and impatient, traits that certainly do not position them to be "successful" romantic partners, this book presents alternative perspectives that are grounded in theory and practice. It articulates the tensions between opposing dynamics, the desire for a committed, trusting, long-term relationship, and the need to protect oneself and continue to grow as an individual in the event that such a relationship never materializes.
MoreLong description:
The romantic lives of emerging adults are often baffling and contradictory. While they prize committed and authentic relationships, they appear to be reluctant participants. They prefer to foster ambiguity in their romantic relationships, even as they value honesty and clarity. There is, at once, a valuing of long-term as well as a decentering of romantic relationships. Although our current understanding is incomplete, this text grapples with these perplexing questions.
In attempting to understand emerging adults and their romantic lives, researchers must consider the challenging economic conditions in which today's emerging adults find themselves. With an emphasis on commitment and sacrifice and their centrality to one's readiness for a long-term relationship, this book reviews the main milestones in transitioning from an "I" identity to a "we" identity and discusses the concepts of choice and risk. Further, the book examines structures such as asymmetrically committed relationships, cohabitation, and marriage through the lens of commitment, risk, and risk avoidance.
Probing extensively into the romantic lives of emerging adults -- their attitudes, values and expectations -- this text examines some of the developmental and contextual realities against which romantic attachment must be viewed. Critical topics such as casual and sexual experiences and relationships, integration of work and love, breakups, marriage, going solo, and social media and its influences are considered. The commonality and the individuality of the emerging adults presented throughout this text contribute to a rich understanding of emerging adults and how they live and love.
"Thoughtful and readable without relying on jargon. It provides a new perspective on the complexities of this developmental stage."
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2: Identity: Becoming an I, Becoming a We
Chapter 3: Premarital Romantic Commitment
Chapter 4: Sacrifice: An Unfolding Narrative
Chapter 5: Techno-Romance and Emerging Adulthood
Chapter 6: Casual Sexual Relationships and Encounters
Chapter 7: The Breakup: Dissolution of Premarital Romantic Relationships
Chapter 8: Pathways Toward Adulthood: Building Roads, Creating Detours in Work and Love
Chapter 9: Love and Living LGBTQ
Chapter 10: For Better or ... Not: Marriage and the Emerging Adult
Chapter 11: Divorce and its Aftermath
Chapter 12: Summary and Syntheses
