10) Harry and Sue exhibit eros, the most typical romantic love that is known as “love at first sight”. Its base on chemistry and a strong physical and/or emotional attraction describes Harry and Sue’s first true interaction at the first party that they went to together. Though they did not meet for the first time at that party, their attraction to one another once there was immediate.
The couple also exemplifies storge on multiple occasions throughout their relationship. This love grows slowly out of friendship and is based on having similar interests and maintaining a commitment to one another over the fickle nature of passion. Both Harry and Sue were communications studies majors living in the same dorm. Sue eventually chooses to commit …show more content…
Harry and Sue meet when they are living in the same college dorm and in the same classes, studying the same major. Harry indicates that he is interested in making contact when he asks Sue to a party. The Experimenting Stage begins when they actually attend the party together and share their first kiss. They spend every day together after they initially begin this stage. This then bleeds into the intensifying stage, which is when intimacy deepens. Harry and Sue have an intimate first kiss during the early part of the Experimenting Stage, but they truly enter the Intensifying Stage after the couple has a fight and Sue decides that “life with Harry is more satisfactory than life without him”, so she decides to commit even more of her time and energy to her relationship with him. After this fight, the couple enters the Integrating Stage by forming a clear public identity as a couple. They date exclusively throughout the entirety of college, go to parties together, spend holidays together and with each others’ families, and vacation together. Once college has ended they enter the Bonding Stage when Harry proposes to Sue after her graduation and the couple moves in together, displaying a public commitment of their …show more content…
Costs can be defined as negative parts of a relationship, while rewards are aspects of relationship that are pleasant. This is essentially a study of how people weight costs against rewards that states that people keep mental balance sheets about relational activities, keeping in mind that what might be costly for one person might be rewarding for another. The comparison level of the Social Exchange Theory consists of a person’s expectation for a relationship, which could involve expectations for loyalty, quality time, honesty, trust, and patience in Sue and Harry’s relationship. The Comparison Level for Alternatives, on the other hand, is the weighing of costs and rewards of a current relationship to the possibility of doing better in another relationship. For example, Sue’s decision to lie about going out for drinks with Brian was based on her weight of costs and rewards. The possibility of getting caught in a lie was less costly than the reward, or pleasantry, of going out for drinks with her friend, even though her husband would not like it. Similarly, Harry’s decision to begin a romance with his coworker weighed the costs of Sue finding out about Krista against the possibility of a new relationship with her. Earlier in the relationship, however, Sue also weighed her costs and rewards on the
The couple also exemplifies storge on multiple occasions throughout their relationship. This love grows slowly out of friendship and is based on having similar interests and maintaining a commitment to one another over the fickle nature of passion. Both Harry and Sue were communications studies majors living in the same dorm. Sue eventually chooses to commit …show more content…
Harry and Sue meet when they are living in the same college dorm and in the same classes, studying the same major. Harry indicates that he is interested in making contact when he asks Sue to a party. The Experimenting Stage begins when they actually attend the party together and share their first kiss. They spend every day together after they initially begin this stage. This then bleeds into the intensifying stage, which is when intimacy deepens. Harry and Sue have an intimate first kiss during the early part of the Experimenting Stage, but they truly enter the Intensifying Stage after the couple has a fight and Sue decides that “life with Harry is more satisfactory than life without him”, so she decides to commit even more of her time and energy to her relationship with him. After this fight, the couple enters the Integrating Stage by forming a clear public identity as a couple. They date exclusively throughout the entirety of college, go to parties together, spend holidays together and with each others’ families, and vacation together. Once college has ended they enter the Bonding Stage when Harry proposes to Sue after her graduation and the couple moves in together, displaying a public commitment of their …show more content…
Costs can be defined as negative parts of a relationship, while rewards are aspects of relationship that are pleasant. This is essentially a study of how people weight costs against rewards that states that people keep mental balance sheets about relational activities, keeping in mind that what might be costly for one person might be rewarding for another. The comparison level of the Social Exchange Theory consists of a person’s expectation for a relationship, which could involve expectations for loyalty, quality time, honesty, trust, and patience in Sue and Harry’s relationship. The Comparison Level for Alternatives, on the other hand, is the weighing of costs and rewards of a current relationship to the possibility of doing better in another relationship. For example, Sue’s decision to lie about going out for drinks with Brian was based on her weight of costs and rewards. The possibility of getting caught in a lie was less costly than the reward, or pleasantry, of going out for drinks with her friend, even though her husband would not like it. Similarly, Harry’s decision to begin a romance with his coworker weighed the costs of Sue finding out about Krista against the possibility of a new relationship with her. Earlier in the relationship, however, Sue also weighed her costs and rewards on the