Types of Relationships
A relationship in which partners are not sexually attracted to each other or choose not to act on their sexual attraction
What is Platonic relationship?
The desire for originality, freshness, and uniqueness in your partner’s behavior or in your relationship
What is Novelty?
People who share private information because one person has shared it with the other, or both have shared the same experience
What is Information co-owners?
A strong, healthy emotional bond between infants and their parents or caregivers based on the belief that they are worthy of care and that other people can be trusted to provide it
What is Secure attachment?
Messages of support, praise, affection, and attending to needs that encourage a child’s physical, social, emotional, and intellectual development
What is Nurturing Messages?
Relationships in which partners act on their mutual sexual attraction to each other.
What is Romantic Relationships?
The tension between wanting your partner to behave in predictable ways versus wanting your partner to act in new and delightfully surprising ways
What is dialect of certainty?
Discussion of who is allowed to coown private information
What is boundary management?
An anxiety-filled emotional bond between infants and their parents or caregivers stemming from worry that their needs will not be met and ambivalence about whether others can be trusted to care for them
What is Anxious-ambivalent attachment?
Messages designed to influence or regulate a child’s behavior
A relationship in which we freely choose the people with whom we interact
The tension between the desire to be connected to your partner versus being independent from your partner
What is dialect of intregration?
Interpersonal difficulty associated with violation of a privacy boundary
What is boundary turbulence?
The inability of a child to emotionally bond with or trust others based on the belief that they are worthy of care but view others as untrustworthy, which results from experiencing severe neglect as an infant
What is Avoidant attachment?
A parenting style characterized by high levels of control with low levels of nurturing; order and tradition, respect, and obedience of parents is valued and reinforced through punishment
What is Authoritarian parenting style?
A relationship in which we have no choice about the other people with whom we interact
What is Involuntary Relationship?
The tension we feel between sharing intimate thoughts with a partner and maintaining our privacy
What is dialect of expression?
A framework for understanding the decision making processes people use to manage private information
What is Communication privacy management theory (CPM)?
The attachment style experienced by a self-reliant and independent adult who has difficulty sustaining close relationships because, while they may have high self-worth, they don’t trust others due to the avoidant attachments they experienced as infants and children
What is Dismissive attachment style?
A parenting style characterized by moderate to high levels of nurturing but little control over children’s behavior; creativity and freedom are valued, rules and demands are few, and children generally get what they want
What is Permissive parenting style?
A romantic relationship between two people who live far apart and so cannot see each other very often.
What is Long distance Relationship?
The conflicting pulls or tensions that exist in relationships as well as within each individual in a relationship
What is Relational Dialects?
The premise that self disclosure is integral to all stages of relationships, but the nature and type of self disclosure change over time, as people move from being strangers to being intimates
What is Social peneration theory?
The attachment style experienced by an adult who is excessively focused on how their relationship partners think about and behave toward them because they have low self-worth and high trust in others due to the anxious ambivalent attachments they experienced as infants and children
What is Preoccupied attachment style?
A parenting style characterized by firm control balanced with ample nurturing; socializing children to become empowered and caring adults is valued and reinforced by setting and enforcing high standards supported by facts and reasoning
What is Authoritative parenting style?