Communication in Personal Relationships. Understanding Personal Relationships Personal Relationship – a voluntary commitment between irreplaceable individuals.

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1 Communication in Personal Relationships

2 Understanding Personal Relationships Personal Relationship – a voluntary commitment between irreplaceable individuals who are influenced by rules, relationship dialects, & surrounding contexts

3 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

4 - Relationship Rules - Affected by contexts - Relationship dialects * Autonomy / Connection * Novelty / Predictability * Openness / Closedness

5 How do we deal with Dialectical Tensions - Separation - Segmentation - Reframing - Neutralization

6 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

7 Romantic Relationship Escalating 1) No interaction 2) Invitational comm. 3) Explorational comm. 4) Intensifying comm. - Eros - Storge - Ludus - Mania - Agape - Pragma

8 5) Revising comm. 6) Intimate bonding

9 Navigating Relationship culture – a private word of rules, understandings, meanings, & patterns of interacting

10 Deterioration 1) Intrapsychic 2) Dyadic 3) Social support 4) Grave dressing 5) Resurrection