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| Interpersonal Relationships |
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| Associations between two people who are interdependent, who use some consistent patterns of interaction, and who have interacted for an extended period of time. |
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| Complementary Relationship |
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| Relationships in which each person supplies something the other person or persons lack. |
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| Symmetrical Relationships |
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| Relationships in which participants mirror each other or are highly similar. |
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| The process of making intentional revelations about yourself that others would be unlikely to know and that generally constitute private, sensitive or confidential information. |
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| In Knapp's model the process of keeping a relationship together. |
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| The tension that exists between two conflicting or interacting forces, elements, or ideas. |
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| Each person in a relationship might have two opposing desires for maintaining the relationship. |
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| Process by which relationships disintegrate. |
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| The location, distance or range between persons and things. |
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| A concept that includes physical attractiveness how desirable a person is to work with, and how much social value a person has with others. |
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| We select our friends and loved ones from people who demonstrate positive interest in us. |
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| Our friends usually like and dislike the same things we do. |
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| We sometimes bond with people whose strengths are our weaknesses. |
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| Messages that create emotional pain. |
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| Deliberately making somebody believe things that are not true. |
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| Assertion of one's rights at expense of others and care about one's own needs but no one else's. |
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| Those attempts made by a source of messages to influence a target to perform some desired behavior that the target otherwise might not perform. |
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| The refusal of targets of influence messages to comply with requests. |
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| Unique forms of expression and language understood only by individual couples. |
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