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Close Relationships - Coggle Diagram
Close
Relationships
types
short vs long term
- can end if someone moves
task vs maintenance oriented
- friends because of close activities
low vs high disclosure
- share a lot or share nothing
infrequent vs frequent contact
- how often you see each other
friendships and gender
same sex
- females are more emotional bonding while guys are physical activity
cross sex
- gives boys opportunity to be emotional while girls can lighten up
friends with benefits
gender considerations
- different people play different roles in friendship
Maintaining successful friendship
don't violate expectancy violations
share joy and sorrows, laughs and memories, listen to them, maintain confidences, help them out, stand up for them, honor pledges and commitments, respect each other, balance exchanges, apologize and forgive
family
narratives help families bond over past memories
rituals and rules set boundaries for a family
each person is interdependent of the others and communicate differently with the other members
communication
autonomy dialectic, respect boundaries while being close, don't abuse technology, encourage confirming messages
romance
love
- intimacy, passion, commitment
intimacy
- closeness and connectedness
passion
- physical attraction and emotional arousal
commitment
- involves decisions to maintain a relationship over time
affection is emotional, physical, and verbal
communication
love languages: words of affirmations, quality time, gifts, acts of service, physical touch
technology can either be good or bad for a relationship but is a symptom of bad communication, not a cause
Many of my friendships have fallen apart because I moved away and the friendship was never revived, I definitely understand cross-sex friendships because I have more serious conversations with my friends who are girls than with guys
My family is incredibly close even though we are all in different places but we definitely connect better when going over past events that happened when me and my brothers were kids or the last time we were all together