EGS

• ACQUAINTANCE


  We meet up through circumstances and first learn about basic information about one another
• ATTRACTION


  • Propinquity or Proximity
  • Exposure
  • Similarity
• BUILD UP


  1. Frequency of interaction increases

  2. Kinds of activities shared become diverse

  3. Testing the waters
• CONSOLIDATION and CONTINUATION


  People commit to a long-term relationship with one another, either through a personal agreement or a social-legal agreement
• DECLINE or DETERIORATION


  Intimate relationships are unable to sustain and maintain their commitments or attraction
• ENDING


  Intimate partnerships who are unable to address the causes and circumstances, the stages culminate to ending or termination of agreements made
• The ABCDE of Intimate Relationships


  • Acquaintance
  • Build up
  • Consolidation and Continuation
  • Decline or Deterioration
  • Ending
• Humans are social beings and at the core of this nature, is relating and connecting with others
• Central to understanding human relationship is the concept of love, an experience so abstract, yet so meaningful to many people
• We are all encouraged to reflect about our human relationships with the goal of forging healthy, successful, and nurturing connection with others
• Analysis of Close Human Relationships by George Levinger (1982)