Relationship Stages
What are the four relationship Stages?
Relationships in which partners act on their mutual sexual attraction to each other.
What is a romantic relationship?
This type of relationship is usually involuntary and formed through biological or legal connection.
What is a family relationship?
Constitutive, indexical, and instrumental.
What are the functions of relationships?
Disclose intimate information only when it represents an acceptable risk.
What is a privacy guideline?
Recognition of dissatisfaction, process of repairing or disengaging from relationship, or ending it altogether.
What is one step in the declining stage?
A relationship in which we have no choice about the other people with whom we interact--for example, family.
What is an involuntary relationship?
This relationship typically begins voluntarily and can evolve into lifelong emotional support without romantic involvement.
What is a friendship?
This function is defined as the communication messages exchanged in a relationship that actually form and shape the relationship itself.
What is the constitutive function?
This term refers to how people coordinate and control the flow of private information in relationships.
What is boundary management?
In this stage, partners navigate balancing their independence with the desire for emotional closeness, often through compromise and open communication.
What is the sustaining stage?
A relationship in which we freely choose the people with whom we interact-- for example, a spouse or a friend.
What is a voluntary relationship?
Long-Term romantic partners often maintain this emotional and moral connection, even during difficult times.
What is commitment?
This function is described as "a toolbox with different tools that we pull out at the appropriate time to accomplish our purposes."
What is the instrumental function?
This guideline helps individuals decide what personal information to share and when, based on the level of acceptable risk.
What is disclose intimate information?
Rob and Mary meet regularly for coffee during lunch hours, usually with coworkers but sometimes alone, and are becoming more comfortable with each other.
What is the developing stage?
Interdependence, commitment, understanding, predictability, interpersonal trust, and self-disclosure are used to do this in relationships.
What are the five factors that help us distinguish between relationships?
This is built when partners reliably meet each other's needs over time.
What is interpersonal trust?
A parent requests that their child hand over their report card, and the child complies. This interaction reflects the power dynamic and roles in the relationship.
What is the indexical function?
Two friends are talking. One says, "I really need to tell you something personal, but only if you promise to keep it between us", this is an example of this concept.
What is a privacy guideline in action?