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6 Relationship Stages
- Contact
- Involvement
- Intimacy
- Deterioration
- Repair
- Dissolution
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Contact
- You see what the person looks, sounds, and smells like
- Decide within the first 4 mins whether you want to persue the relationship
- Flirting
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Involvemet
- Sense of mutuality and being connected develops
- Preliminary questions
- Get to know eachother better
- Direct statements
- Each person tests the other to see how they feel about the relationship
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Intimacy
- Feel honest and open
- Interpersonal commitment (public)
- Bonding
- Affiliative Cues
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Affiliative Cues
signs that show you love the other person, commitment is public
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Deterioration
- Weakening of bond
- Internal dissatisfaction
- View the future negatively
- Politeness lessens
- Evaluations increase
- Criticism and Blaming
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Repair
- Interpersonal repair
- Address the issue not the person
- Win-win situation
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Dissolution
- Cutting of the bonds
- First part is seperation
- 2nd: public and social seperation
- 3rd: Final goodbye, you become an ex
- May have guilt, anger, regret
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