6. Intimacy versus isolation – (20 years to 40 years):

According Fleming (2004), Erikson believed that the strength of this stage of development is intimacy and weakness is isolation. According to Erikson as cited in Fleming (2004), intimacy or closeness between two people is only possible when they have developed a strong identity separately. So, then only they can be able to spend their whole life together and develop an identity as a couple. Otherwise they will divorce or separate.

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