Love for a Lifetime: Exploring Long-term Intense Romantic Relationships Among Filipino Couples

Despite the popular conception that romantic love follows the pattern of an early passionate stage and a later companionate one, there are reports of couples that do remain passionately in love even after a long-term relationship. This qualitative study is an initial foray into this phenomena, and describes the case of 5 opposite-sex couples including their love stories, shared activities, conflict and conflict management, relational maintenance strategies, identity change, sex as well as attitudes and evaluation of their relationship.