Human beings call affection to that inclination of love or affection that is felt towards a person, a friend, a relative, the partner, a child; towards an animal, that pet that accompanies us every day; or for something or object, the ring that our grandmother gave us the day we announced our wedding.
Affectionate inclination towards a person, object, animal
Approached from a psychological point of view, affection is a passion of the spirit that is associated with affection and love and without sexual connotations, it is more linked to sympathy and manifests itself with a moderate intensity in relation to other stronger feelings how can love be.
The importance of growing and developing with love
Affectivity in general, and of course within this affection, turns out to be a key element for the development of any person. If a person grows up surrounded by contempt, lacking expressions of affection and affection, he will do so with deficiencies and imbalances in his personality, serious and real problems that could even bring him countless psychological obstacles that are difficult to solve, because as we know, that that settles down during the first years of a person's life, hardly, then it can be forgotten or uprooted without first leaving its traces.
The feeling of affection is closely linked to the intimacy of a person, therefore, affection will fundamentally be expressed and received between friends, family, boyfriends, spouses, among others.
Mainly, the well transmitted and received affection helps to solidify the personality of a person, provides security and makes it difficult for them to fall in situations in which uncertainty dominates, as well as being a good cloth of tears and the ideal feeling in which to take refuge. when things do not go well or when you are going through a bad time due to the loss of a loved one.
Necessary in all moments of life
In other words, no person in the world can live without affections, they are absolutely necessary in all stages of life. It does not matter if you are a child or an adult, we will always need the affection that someone professes us. Although when we are younger there is a greater demand for pampering and affection, also older adults, who begin to suffer the passage of time in their minds and on the physical plane, demand even more the affection of their close people.
Affects almost always arise from social interaction.
Meanwhile, the person who is characterized by presenting a tendency that manifests affection is called affectionate. "Juan is the most affectionate man I have ever met, he is always showing his affection to all his friends."
All human beings without exception need to be expressed and expressed affection in any case, telling us that they love us, with a precious gift, with a gesture, among other possibilities.
So, for the person to grow fully and comprehensively, it will be necessary to have this feeling and inclination in very good doses.
Also, to the expression and sign of the feeling of affection is called affection. He did not stop making love to her throughout the ceremony.
On the other hand, the dedication and care with which a task is done or something is treated is called affection. Juan treats my hair with great affection, that's why I keep going to his hairdresser.
And it is also recurrent among people the use of the word affection as affectionate appellation: honey, are you coming for dinner today?
How it is expressed
There are different ways of expressing affection to someone, with a specific action, with words, with gestures, with caresses, hugs and kisses, or with a look.
The affection for objects arises from the amount of time that they accompany us and their relationship with happy moments
We must also emphasize that the affection that can be aroused by some object or by something that is possessed is not the product of an interaction as happens with people with whom there is a back and forth of gestures, actions and physical demonstrations. With the good or object in question, affection is born from its possession over time. That is, the more time we spend with something, the more we will become fond of it.
Sometimes one thinks how someone can take great affection for a garment, for example a shirt, and the answer is that surely that person had a very good time wearing that shirt and in case they will end up associating that shirt with happiness.
