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Relationship Stages (Involvement (Here your committed to getting to know…
Relationship Stages
Involvement
A sense of mutuality, of being connected
Here your committed to getting to know the person even better, and so you might follow the person on Twitter, or even read their postings, photos, and causes
Here, you not only try to get to know the other person better, but you also begin to reveal yourself
Intimacy
You feel you can be honest and open when talking about yourself; you can express thoughts and feelings that you don't reveal in other relationships
Social penetration theory- as you move through involvement to intimacy, the breadth and depth of your communication changes
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Depth-concerns the degree to which your penetrate the inner personality- the core- of the other individual
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Contact
There is first perceptual contact- you see what the person looks like, you hear what the person sounds like, you may even smell the person
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Physical appearance is especially important in the initial development of attraction because it's the characteristic most readily available to sensory inspection
Deterioration
the stage that sees the weakening of bonds between the parties in a relationship, and that represents the downside of the relationship progression
Repair
The first phase is interpersonal repair- which you analyze what went wrong and consider ways of solving your relational difficulties
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Dissolution
in both friendship and romance, is the cutting of the bonds that tie you together
The decision to stay in a relationship that does not fulfill your needs or is destructive or to end the relationship is not an easy one to make because so many factors come into play
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