Theories Of Relationships

I meet my Husband at the bar last night introduced ourselves and we got married this morning. That’s an example of an unlikely situation. Relationships such as with a friend, parent, boyfriend or spouse have been evaluated closely. The theory is more you disclose information the closer you get to another person. This takes times in one night this is very unlikely. As you disclose information you move a step closer to that person. In order to create small talk you would need to get the persons attention and introduce yourself. However, it is possible to skip some steps or move backwards but unlikely to go from getting someone’s attention and then getting married. We all follow relationship stages such as engaging someone’s attention, small talk, exchange intimate information, becoming a couple, and making a public commitment. My relationship has followed the steps and have gone …show more content…
This happened because we had already been best friends and have already been through the intensifying stage (disclose more personal information and values). In high school people expected us to always be together if we weren’t it was abnormal. His schedule was my schedule and everything we did was always together. We hardly had any conflict but when we did it would always get solved to quickly that it felt as if we can deal with any bad situation. We talk to each other about everything it’s something that just brings us closer.
Openness in a relationship is sharing information with each other. Flora adds (2013) “questions couples have about how much to protect certain I formation and how much to share” (p.119). Some of the information can be about what you did during the day, feelings and personal problems. Being open can be in many cases easier than to lie and possibly hurt the other person. In some cases the other person’s feelings come into play. I wonder should I protect this