Relationship Analysis Examples

When I was a kid, most of my friendships were built on whether we made each other laugh. Now most of my friends are decided whether we have a class together. One of my good friends and future roommate, Patrick, is exactly one of those friends. As you grow up you try to find friends that will benefit you in some way, whether it has to do with your career, self-esteem, or just to have an educated conversation with. For my Relationship Analysis Paper I will be writing about some of the values we look for in friends, which are; Utility, Ego Support and Stimulation. Patrick and I first met in our Computer Science II course. We were just assigned a hard program we had to create and we started communicating on how we were going to go about solving …show more content…
As you can probably figure out ego support means to boost someone's ego, or be kind and encouraging to the person. You can’t have a friendship that involves boosting one’s ego without their being some sort of immediacy, in our case there wasn’t much self-disclosure, but more referring to the other person's good qualities. This started off small, where we would just tell each other that their code looked nice or their program was impressive. Small compliments, or words of praise, here and their would help us get through difficult task we had to accomplish. Over time as the friendship grew the compliments were not only about our homework or test, but also about other aspects of our lives. Like looking nice that day to give a little moral …show more content…
This is where you expand the mind of the person you are in a relationship with. In our case we chose a geeky and intellectual expansion. Patrick is really into the hardware of computers, a topic I’d like to know more about sense I only study software. So Patrick would show me his computer and tell me about all the different aspects of it and the competitors on the market selling the different processors and graphics cards. And I know a lot about cyber security and privacy concerns so I would fill him in on that world. These are just two examples of the dozens of topics we enjoy together. This can be related to the social penetration theory, it does not deal with why the relationship formed but explains why the relationship develops. more specifically the breadth of the relationship, or number of topics you and your partner have to talk about. Sense Patrick and I share so many interest we naturally enjoy each others company which makes a relationship