We develop close relationships with ourfellow juman beings to
get social support for fulfilling our social needs. These relationships include
approval, assistance, advice and comfort. Close relationships are based on
loving, caring, commitment and intimacy, those are determined by biological,
evolutionary, and cultural factors. For having a long term and close
relationship, it is very important to give value and time to each other.
Interpersonal attraction is a key term that involves in the process of loving or
liking someone.This includes the strength of our liking or loving for any other
person. Physical attractiveness:is theprior determinant in intial encounters to
make close relations for individuals. Researches revealed that, people select
theirpartners by having prior focus on physical attractiveness. Researchers
suggest that, attractive people are also having the characteristics of
sociability, nobility, altruistic and intelligence as compare to less-attractive
people. People who are physically more beautiful has the more chance to build
close affiliations with their partners. The concept of ‘Symmetry’ in physical
features also rated very high in terms of faces and whole body outlook. Some
other important determinants of attractiveness are healthy skin, good teeth,
smiling expressions and good grooming. The features of attractiveness also
differ culture to culture, like in one culture a particular attractive feature
is consider a beauty and in some other culture in might not be consider the
symbol of beauty. The preference of body features also had changed over the
time, like in western world, since last 50 years the athletic andmasculine looks
of women is having the preference in the movies.
Attractiveness is so important while making close relationships because, people
feel good about attractive person, enjoy his/her company, and get popularity in
the society. One more variable in loving and liking is the Similarity, which
means we like those who like us, if we have similar external, internal and
social status attributes then there is a strong chance of becoming strong
relationship among the individuals because similarity makes things easy in terms
of perceiving different attributes like social actions, social position,
personal choices, religious activities, political orientation etc. The
similarity in social status also leads towards to maintain close relations long
lasting because of having balance in socio-economic expectations.Proximity:
Healthy contact between partners also play a vital part to create a strong base
of strong relationships, couple should now each other and have the exposure of
each other’s personality.