As a daughter, daughter was told not to have boys over at the house and other rules of that nature. daughter was so focused on making sure that daughter follow the rules that daughter associated parents’ happiness and approval to me following the rules. Likewise, some people with a good parental relationship follow their parents’ advice about romantic relationships (Hays & Metts, 2015). Every time daughter got into a relationship, daughter asked parents what they thought about it or listened to them lecture about how bad that person was for me. In no time, daughter would no longer be in any type of romantic relationship with someone. parents always see something that daughter cannot in every relationship daughter have romantic or not. The rules do not stop there. daughter was not allowed to spend the night at anyone’s house even though sisters could. They would always give the excuse that daughter could not sleep in the same house with a boy. However, the rule changed from “boy” to “male” when daughter wanted to spend the night over at friend’s house who was an only daughter. Rules established by parents may not make sense, but daughter guess those rules are needed for a …show more content…
The six main relationship stages are contact, involvement, intimacy, deterioration, repair, and dissolution (DeVito, 2013). The relationship mom and daughter are in is in flux between intimacy, deterioration, and repair. We get on each other’s nerves, play around with each other, and help each other out to settle our differences. Most of the reasons why mom and daughter have problems is because we lie to each other. College students are more likely to hide their risky behavior from their parents than to other people (Aldeis & Afifi, 2013). However, all children hide their bad behavior because they do not want to be punished. Kids always hide the fact that they did something wrong, but they felt mom knew what they did all along. Sometimes mom can predict the future because the kids know when mom was not around when they were doing something wrong, but mom would show up out of the blue and witness any wrongdoings. The stage of the relationship is determined by the actions of the people in the relationship. They have to make sure not to do anything drastic that would jeopardize the relationship if they want to continue