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15 Cards in this Set
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Commitment
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a desire to stay in a relationship
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inter-dependence
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a state in which each person's behariours affect everyone else in the relationship
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Investment
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the resources we put into our relationships
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Dialectical Tensions
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conflicts between two important but opposite needs or disires
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Forming relationships is a process
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1. Initiating
2. Experimenting 3. intensifying 4. integrating 5. Bonding |
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Initiating Statge
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When people meet and interact for the first time
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Integrating Stage
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When deep commitment has formed and there is a strong sense that the relationship has its own identity
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Experimenting Stage
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When partners have conversations to learn more about each other
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Intensifying Stage
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When people move from being acquaintances to being close friends
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Bonding stage
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When the partners publicly announce their commitment
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3 types of marriages
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Traditional, Separate, and Independent.
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Types of couple - conflit handling
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Validating, volatile, conflict-avoiding, and hostile
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Communication privacy Management (CPM)
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The theory developed by sandra petronio to explain how people mantain the tension between privacy and disclosure
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Ending relationship process
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1. Differentiating
2. cicumscribing 3. stagnating 4. avoiding 5. terminating |
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Confirming messages
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behaviors that indicate how much we value the other person
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