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Individuals and Families in a Diverse Society There are many factors that tend to affect the change in relationships over time. This is very natural to have change over time because people change thus when people change, then the relation between the two people will ordinary change also. Now the question is what causes these changes and are they positive? In “What’s your love story”, the article by a PhD named Robert J. Sternberg, Robert States that, at some level, lay people recognize what many psychologists don't: that the love between two people follows a story. If we want to understand love, we have to understand the stories that dictate our beliefs and expectations of love. These stories, which we start to write as children, predict the patterns of our romantic experiences time and time again (Robert, 2000:1). Robert came up with the theory of love as a story because he like many was dissatisfied not only with other people's work on love, but also with his own. I had initially proposed a triangular theory of love, suggesting that it comprises three elements: intimacy, passion and commitment (Robert, 2000:1). Different loving relationships have different combinatio