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Relationships

Two Views of Relationships (Steve and Sherry Conversation)

· Relationships have: static, fixed, shaped by social structure

· Relationships do: dynamic, changing, created& recreated via communication

How do two such unlikely “people” get together

· Communication

· Synergy

· The whole is more than the sum of the parts

· Among animals?

· Among humans?

What are some of the ingredients in a new relationship?

· Physical attention

· Mutual attraction

· Chance

· Common ground

· Social attractiveness

Knapp & Vangelisti’s Stages of relationship development

· Initiating

· Experimenting

· Intensifying

· Integrating

· Bonding