State Of A Relationship: Video Analysis

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The circumscribing state of a relationship begins when the people involved begin to limit the amount and the quality of communication with each other. There is physical and metal withdrawal, and soon after they begin to lose interest in each other. In the video this state began at the “comfortable” state. Instead of sharing their ice cream and walking together, he now ate it alone and she was texting on her cellphone. When he asked what she wanted to do, her reply was “I don’t know, whatever”.
Their relationship then entered the stagnating stage. Their relationship was experiencing moments of “nothingness” which, in turn, began damaging their relationship. At that moment they started to create distance and it got so bad that Marisa didn’t

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