Interpersonal Comm. Chapt. 11

Question 1

Commited Romantic Relationships

Answer 1

Relationships between individuals who assume that they will be primary and continuing parts of each other’s lives

Question 2

Romantic Relationships are _____ in mainstream

Answer 2

Voluntary

Question 3

Commited Relationships

Answer 3

Creayted and sustained by unique people who cannot be replaced.involve romantic and sexual feelings. Another distinctive quality of romantic relationships is that they are considered primary and enduring.

Question 4

Romantic love has 3 dimensions

Answer 4

Intimacy, Commitment, and Passion

Question 5

Passion 1st dimension

Answer 5

Intensly positive feelings and fervant desire for another person. Passion is not restricted to sexual or sensual feelings

Question 6

Commitment 2nd Dimension

Answer 6

Commitment is the intention to remain in a relationship.
Commitment and love are not the same thing but are linked.

Question 7

Commitment has 2 categories of reasons to stay

Answer 7

1. Staying because we find it comfortable and pleasing. We value and indiviuals companionship, emotional support, finanncial assistance, practical help and so forth.
2. Staying in a relationshpi to avoid negative consequences that would accompany ending it.

Question 8

Intimacy 3rd Dimension

Answer 8

Feelings of closeness, connection, and tenderness.
Intimacy is abiding affection and warm feelings for another person.

Question 9

3 Styles of Loving

Answer 9

Eros, Storge, Ludus

Question 10

Eros

Answer 10

Powerful, Passionate style of love that blazes life suddenly and dramtically.
It is an intense kind of love that may include sexual, spiritual, intellectual, or emotional attraction.
Eros is the most intuitive and spontaneous of all love styles.

Question 11

Storge

Answer 11

Comfortable, even-keeled kind of love based on friednship and compatibility.
Storgic love tends to develop gradually and is usually peacful and stable

Question 12

Ludus

Answer 12

Playful love.
An adventure full of scheming, challenges, puzzles, and fun, but love is not to be taken to seriously.
Ludus love does not have the goal of commitment

Question 13

3 secondary styles

Answer 13

Pragma, Mania, Agape

Question 14

Pragma

Answer 14

Practical Love
Pragmatic lovers have clear critera for partners

Question 15

Mania

Answer 15

Greek for Madness in Love
Manic lovers devise tests and games to evaluate a partner’s commitment.
Often exprience emotional extremes ranging from Euphoria to despair

Question 16

Agape

Answer 16

Loving each other without expectation of personal gain or return.
Generous and selfless, they put a loved one’s happiness ahead of their own without any expectation of repocity
Generous Love

Question 17

5 Issues in identifying love styles

Answer 17

1. Most of us have a combo of love styles
2. Styles of love are not permanent
3. Love style is part of an overall interpersonal system, and is affected by all other aspects of a relationship
4. INdividual styles of love are not good or bad in an absolute sense. What matter is how the styles fit together
5. Love styles percieved appropriatness or desirability.

Question 18

3 phases of relationship growth

Answer 18

Growth,Navigation, and deterioration

Question 19

6 Growth Stages

Answer 19

Indivuality-involve romantic and sexual feelings. Another distinctive quality of romantic relationships is that they are considered primary and enduring.
Invitational Communication- Interested in interacting
Exploratinoal Communication- Focuses on learning about each other
Intensifying Communication- immersing in each other so much they feel as if they cant be apart
Revising Communication-Problems are recognized, and partners evaluate whether they want to work through them.
Commitment-which is the decision to stay with the relationship

Question 20

Navigation

Answer 20

the ongoing process of staying committed and living a life together despite ups and downs, and pleasant and unpleasant surprises.
Navigation involves both prevenitive maitenance and periodic repairs

Question 21

Relational Culture

Answer 21

private world of rules, understandings, meanings, and patterns of acting and interpreting that partners create for their relationship

Question 22

Placemaking

Answer 22

Process of creating a comfortable personal enviornment that reflects values, expiriences, and tastes of the couple

Question 23

Deteroriation

Answer 23

Not all commited relationships last

Question 24

Deteroration Stages

Answer 24

1. Intrapsychic Processes- When one or both partners begin to feel dissatisfied with the realtionship
2. Dyadic Processes- Involves the breakdown of established patterns, rules, and rituals to make up relational culture
3. Social Support- Phase when partners look to family or friends in support after a break up
4. Grave-Dressing- Burying the relationship and accepting its end
   5.Ressurection process- When the 2 people move on with their lives without the other as an intimate

Question 25

Guidelines for communicating in a romantic realtionship

Answer 25

Engage in dual perspective
Practice safer sex
Manage conflict constructively
Adapt communication to maintain long-distance relationships