Personal Narrative: The Six-Stage Relationship Model

Relationships have a funny way of working out for the best. In this paper I am going to write about my high school and the relationship we had. This was my first real experience with a romantic relationship. I had no idea how complex our relationship would become over years we spent together. Little did we know, we would be following the Six-Stage Relationship Model to the letter. The first stage of the Six-Stage Relationship Model is contact. The first initial contact was that we were both on the JV tennis team at our high school our sophomore year. The first time we talked was when we were paired together for mixed doubles at one of our tournaments. Even though we were on the same team and saw each other everyday, we had just met. It was a bit awkward at first because playing tennis with someone takes a lot of …show more content…
After a year we knew everything about each other and it just seemed boring. We were bored with each other and we tried to replace communication with having a more physical relationship. I still believe I pushed her too hard. After one night, she was especially distant and I tried to talk to her about it, but she wouldn’t talk to me. What she wanted to tell me was the she loved me, but she wasn’t brave enough to say it first. She had felt that way for two months. I could never say it. It was the first time in our relationship that we didn’t feel the same way about each other. At that point, we had drifted apart. She was tired of waiting for me to gather up the courage. That year, we had both made varsity tennis, but it was like before we met. We just didn’t talk anymore. It wasn’t that we didn’t talk as much as we used to, we didn’t even talk at all. She avoided me at practice and in the halls. Everything just felt awkward. We weren’t on any of the romantic rules and the entire relationship was ready to cave in. That, unfortunately, lead to the dissolution of our