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intimacy
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significant emotional closeness experienced in a relationship
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pg. 314
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characteristics of intimacy
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require deep commitment, foster interdependence, require continuous investment, spark dialectical tensions
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commitment
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a desire to stay in a relationship
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intimate relationships usually include some level of....
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emotional commitment, social commitment, legal and financial commitments
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interdependence
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a state in which each person's behavior affect everyone else in the relationship
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investment
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the resources we put into our relationships
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What is ori
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obsessive relational intrusion- Cupach and Splitzberg explain this as when one person in a relationship expresses a substantially higher level of interest in a relationship than the other
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the most satisfying intimate relationships appear to be those in which....
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both parties are investing equally
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dialectical tensions
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conflicts between two important but opposing needs or desires. three tensions in particular often arise within families and relationships.
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three dialectical tensions
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autonomy vs. connection
openness vs closedness predictability vs novelty |
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autonomy
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the feeling of wanting to be ones own person
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what are the 8 strategies that people in intimate relationships use to manage dialectical tensions?
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denial
disorientation alternation segmentation balance integration recalibration reaffirmation |
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what did sociologist Frances Hsu say about the difference between an American and Chinese person who was considering marriage?
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an American asks "how does my heart feel? ", whereas a Chinese person asks "what will other people say?"
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a family studies scholar Stephanie Coontz points out the connection between love and marriage is a
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historically recent trend, even in western cultures. It has only been in the last three centuries that societies have began thinking of love as the basis of marriage.
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Communications scholar Mark Knapp has suggested there are 5 stages to forming a relationship:
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initiating
experimenting intensifying integrating bonding |
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initiating stage
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the stage of relationship development when people meet and interact for the first time
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experimenting stage
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the stage of relationship development when individuals have conversations to learn more about each other.
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intensifying stage
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the stage of relationship development when individuals move from being acquaintances to being close friends
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integrating stage
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the stage of relationship development when a deep commitment has formed, and there is a strong sense that the relationship has its own identity
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bonding stage
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the stage of relationship development when the partners publicly announce their commitment
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Mary Anne Fitzpatrick's research of patterns of marital communication suggests that...
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people form and maintain marriages by reply on marital schemata, which represents their cognitive models for what marriage is and should be.
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Fitzpatrick's research has found the types of marriages that are especially common:
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traditional, separate, independent
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four communication behaviors have particular influence on romantic partners satisfaction with their relationship:
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conflict management
privacy management emotional communication instrumental communication |
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communication scholars William Wilmot and Joyce hocker define conflict as
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"an expressed struggle between at least two interdependent parties so perceive incompatible goals, scarce resources, and interference from the other party in achieving their goals"
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martial therapist John Gottmans work suggests marital couples can be classified into for groups, depending on how they handle conflict:
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validating couples, volatile couples, conflict avoiding couples, and hostile couples.
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communication privacy management (cpm) theory, developed by Sandra Petronio-
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theory that explains how people manage the tension between privacy and disclosure.
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