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• Personal relationships


  Close connections between people, formed by emotional bonds and interactions
• Personal development


  Relationships are not static; they are continually evolving, and to fully enjoy and benefit from them we need skills, information, inspiration, practice, and social support
• Kinds of personal relationships


  • Family
  • Friends
  • Partnership
• Family


  Two or more persons who are related by birth, marriage, or adoption and who live together as one household
• Family


  • Support, mutual trust, regular interactions, shared beliefs and values, security, and a sense of community
• Friendship


  A close tie between two people that is often built upon mutual experiences, shared interests, proximity, and emotional bonding
• Online friends don't count toward close ties, research indicates that a large online network isn't nearly as powerful as having a few close, real-life friends
• Partnership


  Romantic partnerships, including marriage, are close relationships formed between two people that were built upon affection, trust, intimacy, and romantic love
• We usually experience this kind of relationship with only one person at a time
• Importance of relationships


  • Avoid isolation
  • Meet interpersonal requirements
  • Serve as behavioral anchor
  • Serve as communication channels
  • Maintain self-worth
• Ways to nurture relationships


  • Connect with your family
  • Practice gratitude
  • Learn to forgive
  • Be compassionate
  • Accept others
  • Create rituals together
  • Spend the right amount of time together
• Romantic relationships


  When a person enters into a marriage, we naturally anticipate it to be enduring and that anticipation or permanence, at least in part, differentiates a romantic relationship with others
• Passionate love


  What we feel when we first fall in love; it shows our attraction and focus on a single person, While some succeed to withstand possible love or over a lifespan, it often declines in intensity over time
• Companionate love


  Intensifies over time. As a couple's feeling of trust and caring for one another nurtures, they, involve themselves in one another's life and reciprocally react to each other's needs
• Kinds of love


  • Pragma
  • Mania
  • Agape
  • Eros
  • Ludis
  • Storge
• Pragma


  A style of love that emphasizes the practical aspects of love. It is an arranged marriage
• Mania


  A style of love characterized by volatility, insecurity, and possessiveness. It is more likely an obsessive love
• Agape


  Altruistic, selfless love. It has spiritual value, frequently described as pure
• Eros


  Sexual love that carries couples together
• Ludis


  A style of loving that emphasizes the game of seduction and fun where partners do not see their relationship as permanent
• Storge


  The love we have for God, friends and family members. It does not contain sex at all, although at one time or another, we may find ourselves sexual attraction
• Stages of relationship development


  • Initiating
  • Experimenting
  • Intensifying
  • Integrating
  • Bonding
  • Differentiating
  • Circumscribing
  • Stagnating
  • Avoiding
  • Terminating
• Triangular theory of love


  Intimacy, Commitment, Passion
• Factors affecting attraction and liking


  • Transference effect
  • Propinquity effect
  • Similarity
  • Reciprocity
  • Physical attractiveness
• Transference effect


  A phenomenon characterized by unconscious redirection of feelings from one person to another
• Propinquity effect


  The tendency for people to form friendships or romantic relationships with those whom they encounter often, forming a bond between subject and friend
• Similarity


  The state of being similar; likeness; resemblance
• Reciprocity


  In social psychology, reciprocity is a social rule that says people should repay, in kind, what another person has provided for them
• Physical attractiveness


  The degree which a person's physical features are considered aesthetically pleasing or beautiful
• Responsible relationship behaviors


  • Be responsible for what you think and say
  • Be responsible for what you promise
  • Ensure the relationship is mutually beneficial
  • Respect the other party
  • Be ready to provide support
• There is no good in cheating. No valid reason is enough to justify cheating. It is always wrong and will always be wrong. The pain it can cause should not be underestimated, it can affect a person's self worth, can cause anxiety and can completely change a person's life.
• Basic rights in a relationship


  • The right to emotional support
  • The right to be heard and respond
  • The right to have your own point of view
  • The right to have your feelings and experiences acknowledged
  • The right to live free from accusation, blame, criticism, judgement, emotional/physical threat, angry outbursts
  • The right to be respectfully asked, rather than ordered
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• Initiating stage - This is when people initially meet and assess each other's

  attractiveness and availability
• Experimenting stage. This is the time people attempt to reduce their

  uncertainty about one another.
• Intensifying stage. In this stage, partners start disclosing extremely

  personal information to one another, they develop nicknames for each other,

  and often talk using the word "we."
• Integrating stage. This is the time when the two individuals become a

  couple. They emphasize to themselves, and others, how much they share in

  common— they are certain that they share similar attitudes, interests, and

  opinions.
• Bonding stage. is marked by a public ritual, typically marriage
• Differentiating stage. The differentiating stage finds one of more partners

  struggling to recreate or regain a sense of distinctive identity.
• Circumscribing stage. The circumscribing stage finds the

  relationship enduring its failure.