Communication in Personal Relationships
Understanding Personal Relationships Personal Relationship – a voluntary commitment between irreplaceable individuals who are influenced by rules, relationship dialects, & surrounding contexts
Features of Personal Relationships - Uniqueness Social Relationship – a relationship in which participants interact according to social roles rather than unique individual identities - Commitment Investment – what we put into a relationship that cannot be retrieved
- Relationship Rules - Affected by contexts - Relationship dialects * Autonomy / Connection * Novelty / Predictability * Openness / Closedness
How do we deal with Dialectical Tensions - Separation - Segmentation - Reframing - Neutralization
Evolutionary Course of Personal Relationships Friendship 1) Role limited interactions 2) Friendly relations 3) Moving toward friendship 4) Nascent friendship 5) Stabilized friendship 6) Waning friendship
Romantic Relationship Escalating 1) No interaction 2) Invitational comm. 3) Explorational comm. 4) Intensifying comm. - Eros - Storge - Ludus - Mania - Agape - Pragma
5) Revising comm. 6) Intimate bonding
Navigating Relationship culture – a private word of rules, understandings, meanings, & patterns of interacting
Deterioration 1) Intrapsychic 2) Dyadic 3) Social support 4) Grave dressing 5) Resurrection