a schema that promotes a mutual and accurate exchange of real experiences with a partner, which is opposed to the risk of separation or facing the partner’s disapproval. Authenticity includes two components:1) Unacceptability of lies and deception. In authentic relationships, there is no desire to maintain ideas about oneself and about the partner that do not correspond to reality.2) Acceptance of the risks of intimacy. It involves the desire for more open, closer communication, that is, the disclosure of one’s “I” to a partner.