Bonding

Through the whole life people are bonded to other people. You need friends, family and partners to be happy, to talk to or just to have fun!

The maternal-bond is considered as one of the strongest bonds. It is the bonding between a mother and her child and starts with the birth of the child by laying the baby on the mother´s chest just after she gave birth. This bond will last through the whole life.

This bond is not to be mixes with the mother-bond. Some men got this bond and are excessively attached to their mother and still live with her while these men actually are expected to be indipendend at that age(30+).

In contrast to this maternal-bonding, the father-infant bond is developing with the growth and develop of the child. When daddies bathe, feed, carry ot soothe the baby it shows a greater bond. In some households children grow up without their dad so the father-infant bond doesn´t exist. In general the father-bon or paternal bond is more dominant in a child´s life after language developed.

A bond everyone should have is the human bond. A bond between two people. It refers to the process for formation of a close personal relationship. It can be between parent and child, friends or relatives.
Here also a good interpersonal chemistry plays a vital role.

Close to this interpersonal chemistry is the male/female bond. It defines the bonding between males/females excluding the other sex. Like girlsfriends going shopping and having a coffee together or two mates who drink beer and watch soccer in a bar.

Some of these bonds get even stronger or develop by using social networks. Which may include up to 150 people. With the recent popularity of the internet, websites like facebook, Myspace or Twitter encourage people to increase their friendship network: some people have friends in facebook without even knowing them or being friends.

In a relationship bonding plays a vital role. The affectional bond (emotional bond) refers to the tendency of humans to attach. They need seek closeness to the other person and feel good when he or she is present.
A nother bond, close to the relationship is the erotic bond. According to the Johnn Money´s book `love maps`(1988) every person has a love map wich includes his or hers experiences and predilections for something. It contains positiv and negativ factors, e.g. what they are attracted to: blond hair, blue eyes, sense of humour...

The humans best friend is the dog: human-animal bond. It is defined as a connection between people and animals and known to reduce the physiological characteristic of stress.

Some people treat their pets like their own children, e.g. clothes for dogs, expensive huts made out of gold...
Also this bond is used by retards. The dolphin therapy for example.

So, we can say bonding is important for us. We need others to be happy, to talk to or just to have fun with them..no matter if it is our mum, a good friend or a dog;)