The postmodern rule suggests absence of norms, practices and discourses pointing possible men and women not only reproduce social models, but invent ways of loving partnerships, what we call customizing relationships. We consider the diversity of coexisting conjugal settings in our society and the modern family that remains as ideal model for most. From these considerations, we discussed the extent to which a homosexual couple and a heterosexual Belo Horizonte medium layers were repeating values closer to the model of the modern romantic ideal marital, and/or reinventing ways. We discussed the extent to which couples would be repeating values closer to the model of the modern romantic ideal marital, and/or reinventing ways. We conclude that the combination of the ideals and values assumed by married couples not only reflects the idea of customization, because every couple takes a singular way to relate, as also an adaptive capacity to our time.
conjugality; ideal of love; romantic love; confluent love; contemporaneity