Dating and Relationship

When people fall in love they often seek advice from those around them about how to proceed with the relationship. The high rate of relationship failure and the pain of past breakups makes relationship advice highly valuable.

Significance

Love advice can be formal and professional when it is given by a therapist or trained counselor. The advisor may use assessments and professional techniques in diagnosing any problems of compatibility or adaptation that may be occurring.

Many people get informal advice from friends, parents and other family members who know them well in helping them make a wise decision.

Function

Love advise is wise because it serves to keep those involved from being blinded by emotion. Self-interest and the desire to avoid loneliness can cause a person to ignore problems that are apparent to an outside observer. Love advice can keep people from making self-destructive decisions.

Types

Love advice is available through personal counseling, reading books, attending seminars and informal conversations. It may be given by professional psychologists, ministers, marital or relationship counselors, parents, friends and other concerned people.Love advice can be informal or formal. It may be generalized to all relationships or customized to your particular set of circumstances.