As a result of Olive’s reputation, a lot of different guys who can’t get a girl at school come up to her and pay her to have done something sexual with her. This was all fake and the social and intimate relationships she creates with these guys ruin her. Relationship development helps create and maintain our own identity and make us feel belong in a society. Also, in Olive’s situation, her relationships included rewards and costs. We begin relationships on our first impressions and attraction towards them. Olive begins to think that since she can get to these guys, the one she actually loves wil come to her. The Social Penetration Theory is a “process of creating and maintaining deeper intimacy with another person” (book). This is a gradual
