Humans are by nature innately social beings and they thrive on relationships. Having Relationships and participating in social interaction are some of the basic needs of human beings. They are beneficial to people’s physical and mental health. People crave affection, respect, love, respect, and companionship. Relationships can be detrimental to a person’s health if it is bad or it can promote happiness and success. Some qualities of good relationships are empathy, trust, respect, flexibility, uniqueness, honesty, interdependence, and rapport. If a relationship is good it can be considered irreplaceable.
The relationship I am going to analyze is the relationship between my boyfriend and me. We have known each other for a little …show more content…
We are both characterized as being storgic lovers which is “characterized by rapport, self-revelation, interdependency, and mutual need fulfillment Storgic lovers are essentially good friends who have grown in intimacy through close association, with an unquestioned assumption that their relationship will be permanent and that they will find a way to deal with their problems that causes them minimum pain”. We are not only lovers, but he is also my best friend. Living up to our storgic love, Adam and I share all of our secrets and disclose often. I feel comfortable telling him anything, and he has told me he is comfortable telling me his deepest secrets and desires. We are both very supportive of each other and we communicate very well. This relationship has very few conflicts and we have never had a fight. This relationship went through many stages to morph into what it has become. According to Knapp, one of the first stages of romantic relationship development is the initiating stage. This stage is about making a good initial first impression on your potential relational partner Adam and I first met at a party. First I became aware of him before our initial