Intimate relationship

Relationships come and go over time, but there is always external factors that directly influence how our relationships with people end and or how new relationships start up. Our relationships can be altered by simply the distance between one another, for with a new location, we create new relationships and old relationships may remain or change. Relationships can also change by our demands and interests, for if we have a girlfriend or boyfriend or an intensive job, we may have to choose one…

Long-term relationships are especially important to the growth and development of human being’s maturity and understanding of the world. With those relationships, there are numerous preconceived societal norms from the constitutive culture in which one grows up. American culture creates expectations of how one’s partner is expected to act. In American culture, one is expected to grow up, go to college, get married and start a family, living out that life monogamously. Yet according to statistics…

deed of revealing more about oneself to others. This includes goals, failures, fears, dreams as well as likes and dislikes. Self-disclosure typically occurs when an individual initially meets someone and continues as the relationship establishes and develops. As the relationship progresses, the disclosure of information begins to come naturally and more candidly. If one person is not open to self-disclosing then the other person may cease to disclose information about themselves.…

observer when the accountability should be shared with the participant. The participant makes the conscious choice to head out into public where he could be observed at any moment, yet when he does, the blame is placed onto the observer for examining an intimate moment. Gerstein makes the mistake of putting forth a very confusing and contradicting statement by saying that he does not blame the observers when he does, and then goes to wholly place the guilt onto them. He comes off extremely…

romantic relationship, no matter the level of commitment, is complicated because it can be an underlying constant emotion felt in a relationship. For example one can experience an intense adrenaline of fear when they are climbing up a mountain without ropes, but when they complete climbing, that fear previous felt dissipates. On the other hand in romantic relationships, there is not a defining moment of fear, like in rock climbing, instead someone may fear different aspects of their…

within the confines of friendship which is a more powerful and driving force in the play. Tama Matheson and Patrick Dwyer exhibit precise and deliberate control their movements to shape a believable relationship between the characters. Symbolism and development of mood further expands on the relationship in order to illustrate the significance of platonic love. A convention of Elizabethan theatre that both Matheson and Dwyer utilized was slightly elevated but natural movement and mastery over…

and nonverbal communication should match. Proximity is important during communicating with others because where individuals sit or stand relative to another person can signify levels of intimacy or the type of relationship they share. A distance of 0 to 18 inches is considered the intimate zone, which is typically the space shared among close friends, romantic partners, and close friends.…

119). Hall (1966) claimed that the proxemics zone of personal distance of the close phase is between one and a half to two and a half feet. He describes this distance as one being able to touch another, but it is not close enough to be considered intimate space (Hall, 1966). In a close phase, viewing…

focuses of social relationships research (Turner and Turner 2013). The presence of relationship refers to the impacts result from the existence of the social ties, whereas the content of relationship is the quality and the perceived or the actual supports the egos obtain from the ties. Studies have shown that both the existences of and the quality of relationships are influential on health and mental health. House et al. (1988) maintains that the primary benefits from social relationships are…

Attachment plays a large role in relationships. Attachment is the relationship that one makes with a parent, sibling, friend, or partner. Tai Mendenhall defines attachment as “a special emotional relationship that involves an exchange of comfort, care, and pleasure”. Attachment is established in early childhood between a child and their caregiver which usually is their parents. A child’s attachment style usually suggests the type of attachment style someone will have as an adult. Adult…