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• Sprecher & Hendrick (2004)


  heterosexual couples

  found strong correlations between measures of satisfaction and self-disclosure

  men and women who used self-disclosure and those who believed their partners did were more satisfied with and more committed
• Laurenceau et al (2005)


  used a method writing a daily diary and found that self-disclosure and perception of self-disclosure in a partner were linked to higher levels of intimacy in long-term married couples, this increases the validity of the social penetration theory
• Hass & Stafford (1998)

  57% of homosexual couples said that open and honest self-disclosure was a mechanism for deepening committed relationships.