Interpersonal Relationship
9.1 Advantages and Disadvantages of Interpersonal Relationships
Being in a relationship helps to lessen loneliness.
Having contact with others helps you to better understand who you are like for me when I am around my boyfriend or friends I am able to better understand who I am as a person and how I act and behave.
People who are not in a relationship or has at least a relationship with someone they know tend to have my physical and emotion illnesses.
Being in a relationship can also bring you great pain and can effect you in a negative way by almost changing you as a person in a bad way.
9.2 Relationship Stages
Contact: this is the first stage of meeting someone. This is the part where you can see the person, be near them, brows their profile if it is alone, and find all the basic formation about the person that you need to know.
Involvement: in the second stage you begin to experience the person you are with more. You try to find out their intensions of why they are talking and being with you. You will start to tell a little bit more about yourself, but not too much, because you are still trying to get to know the person better.
Intimacy: in the third stage, you start to reveal almost everything about yourself. You trust the person and are connected to them now on a very personal level. You start to test your boundaries to see where the relationship will lead to and test each other on how much information you are going to reveal to each other.
Deterioration: in the fourth stage this is where sometimes the relationship just doe not go anywhere and the communication begins to weaken. Some people do stay in the intimacy stage, but sometimes they do not last. Some reason for this happening is that they do not find each other interesting anymore, financial difficulties, or sexual dissatisfaction.
Repair: in the fifth stage for some relationships, this is where the partners begin to figure out what went wrong and how they plan to fix it. They will tend to talk over between themselves or have a third party involved.
Dissolution: in the sixth and final stage this is where the couple or friendship will completely cut the bonds for good.
Movement among the Stages: in relationships there can be turing points where the relationship can process very quickly or just take it very slow. The relationships takes leaps and does not tend to follow the stages.
9.3 The Dark Side of Interpersonal Relationships
Relationship Jealousy: in relationships there tend to be three types of jealousy. Cognitive: worrying and thinking that there is suspiciousness. Emotions: this happens when you see your partner kissing or being involved with someone else. Behavioral: this happens when you start to basically stalk your partner by either reading their messages or watching their profile.
Bullying: when their is bullying their is abuse with one person to another. Being bullied can leave the person with emotional and physical scares. Bullying can be gossip, giving negative expressions to the person, and even talking bad about them online which is considered cyberbullying.
Relationship Violence: in some relationships there can be verbal, physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. This could be from hitting, to yelling, making someone not want to have sex, and stalking. Being in an abusive relationship is sometimes hard to get out of. When in a abusive relationship it is good to seek help and get support from other people like friends and family.
