Com120 09 stages_13ed part 1

1. Ch 9: Interpersonal Relationships  Stages  Theories  Communication

2. Stages Intimacy • Interpersonal Involvement Commitment • Social • Testing Bonding • Intensifying Contact • Perceptual • Interactional

6. Stages cont’d Deterioration • Intrapersonal dissatisfaction • Interpersonal dissatisfaction Dissolution Repair • Interpersonal separation • Intrapersonal repair • Social / public separation • Interpersonal repair