Understanding Interpersonal Relationships

Many years later they meet again on several occasions but the intensifying stage does not resume until they finally become friends and share details about their past failed relationships. During this period they start spending a considerable amount of time together and their expression of feelings toward the other becomes more intense. We see the beginnings of a true interpersonal relationship development.

Human relationships are a fundamental part of life. Studying relationship development is key to understanding why people interact the way they do. To figure this out, it is important to understand how relationships change as we grow older, how the internet affects our relationships, how we remember important points in a relationship, and how rituals affect the quality of a relationship. Learning how these aspects of relationship development work together to build and maintain relationships between couples and friends are important in understanding where these relationships go wrong or why they last.

Interpersonal relationship is an association between two or more individuals based in love, solidarity, or other mutual social commitment. In the movie “Break Up”, I will analyze the character’s relationship and breaking up. The man character’s name is Greg Meyers interpreted by Vince Vaughn and the girl’s name is Brooke Meyers by Jennifer Aniston. In the movie “Break up”, the audience can identify the six stages of interpersonal relationships.

It is often said that all good things come to an end. Relationships come and go, and some mean more than others. In fact, there was even a relationship model developed by a communication researcher by the name of Mark Knapp. In his model, he goes through what seems to be presented as a smooth step transition from each stage in which a relationship eventually evolves into. As I studied this up then down ladder model, I began to realize that I ought to build up some strong calf muscles, because my relationship sure has climbed up and down a few flights of stairs. Mark Knapp believes that relationships go through multiple stages, the uphill stages being initiation, experimenting, intensifying, integrating, bonding, then relational maintenance. On the flip side, Knapp believes the descending stages to be differentiating, circumscribing, avoiding, and eventually, termination.

The type of relationship I will be analyzing is my friendship with Jeremy Orner. The relationship model that best describes this relationship would be the one developed by Mark Knapp (Knapp & Vangelisti, 2006) who broke down relationship development into ten steps. This model explains friendship throughout our ten years as friends, so far we have been through 9 of the ten steps; Initiating, Experimenting, Intensifying, Integrating, Bonding, Differentiating, Circumscribing, Stagnating, and Avoiding,

This chapter discusses the different ways to improve communication skills and interpersonal interactions. Donatelle defines intimate relationship into four characteristics that include behavioral interdependence, need fulfillment, emotional attachment and emotional availability. Most common intimacy relationship is from family, partners, and close friends that usually involve healthy and unhealthy characteristics. This chapter explains on how to improve the ability to communicate with others by learning appropriate self-disclosure, becoming a better listener, using non-verbal communication and resolving conflict through communication. Finally, this chapter discusses

B efore marriage, love or even dating, there is attraction, the unexpected force that draws two people together. Physical attractiveness is the physical traits which are perceived and believed to be aesthetically pleasing or beautiful. There are multiple factors which influence one person to be attracted to another. These factors can vary between many cultures, cultural and social aspects, and individual subjective preferences (Gangestad & Scyheyd, 2005). An individuals perceived attractiveness can have a significant effect on how they are judged in terms of employment or social opportunities, friendship, sexual behavior, and marriage (Townsend & Levy, 1990).

At Teacher’s College in the early 1950s she created and taught the first classes for graduate nursing students. Between 1954 and 1974, Peplau was a faculty member at Rutgers University College of Nursing. Here she created the first graduate program for clinical specialists in psychiatric nursing. In the 1950s and 1960s, she held summer workshops for nurses across the US teaching interpersonal concepts and interviewing techniques for individual, family, and group therapy. She also served as an advisor for the World Health Organization. (Hildegard Peplau). Peplau, in 1952, published her Theory of Interpersonal Relations which in 1968 became the crux of psychiatric nursing. Her theory was influenced by Henry Stack Sullivan, Percival Symonds, Abraham Maslow, and Neal Elger Miller. Peplau’s Theory of Interpersonal Relations identifies four sequential phases in the interpersonal

The second half of the relational model is called the “coming apart” stages, which consists of: differentiating, circumscribing, stagnating, avoiding, and lastly terminating. During the differentiating stage the relationship will start to be more individual, it will start to fade and the bond will be broken. After that comes the circumscribing stage during which the individuals won’t communicate because of the fear of starting an argument. The stage where relationships never improve or continue is called stagnating. After this point the individuals enter the avoiding stage, where the avoid any physical contact

Why do we form relationships? In chapter 8 we find out that in relationships one aspect can be related to the appearance of someone. As well how proximity to an individual can have a great impact on the way a relationship will develop. One must also take into consideration how one's similarities will make a relationship stronger and last longer. It also goes to how one may eventually terminate a relationship that is no longer working.

A relationship is an emotional connection to someone involving an interaction between two or more people. There are many types of relationships, some functional and others far from being workable. I will demonstrate this through my texts of; Little Fugue, and Morning Song both poems written by Sylvia Plath; the movie, Love Actually; and the book, Trickster’s Choice by Tamora Pierce.

The idea that will be focused on throughout this paper is; what is Interpersonal communication? The idea seems quite simple from the outside in, but if you were to take a deeper look at the subject you might find it to be a rather complex. To start lets simplify things a little bit. We can begin by thinking about just how people that have become acquainted with one another, and communicate in a romantic relationship. This idea can be broken up into five stages, but we will be looking at only the first two. The first stage would be the Initiating Stage, “This stages is about catching another’s attention…” (Jeanne Flora, 2013, 111) This stage focuses on getting to know

Interpersonal communication has a significant effect on individuals when looking to spark future romance. It demonstrates how people interact with one another, and while communication is key, it sometimes even sparks and attraction or interest which may lead to a potential romance. Based on our in class textbook, some of the factors why we form relationships are; appearance, similarity, complementarity, rewards, competency, proximity, and disclosure. (Ronald B. Adler) Initiating relationships are not always easy, and it’s not always love at first sight, but appearance does play a role in starting a relationship or not.

Effective interpersonal interactions are essential in life. Interpersonal interactions influence everything including your happiness of your friends and family. The process of building a relationship with someone is not always smooth and

Interpersonal relationships are specific relationships that form between individuals that share a connection or bond and these relationships can be short lived or can last a lifetime (Mack, 2017). A lot of interpersonal relationships begin and develop in the work place between coworkers and colleagues who work side by side and interact with one another daily. These interactions can be both positive or negative and these interactions are the building blocks of interpersonal relationships. With most full-time employees working upwards of forty hours a week it is completely natural for these employees to build bonds and relationships with each other given the amount of time spent together. Interpersonal