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Social relationships
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Relationships with people we casually care about
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Personal relationships
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Unique commitments between irreplaceable individuals who are influenced by rules, relational dialectics and surrounding contexts
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Passion
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Involves intensely positive feelings and desires for another person
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Commitment
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Decision to remain in a relationship
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Investments
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That which we put into relationships that we could not retrieve if the relationship were to end
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Rules
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Guide how partners communicate and interpret each other's communication
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Relational dialectics
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The opposing and continual tensions that are normal in personal relationships
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Neutralization
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Negotiates a balance between dialectical needs
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Separation
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Favors one need in a dialectic and ignores the other
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Segmentation
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Partners addign each need to certain spheres, issues, activities or tims
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Reframing
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Redifines apparently contradictory needs as not really in opposition
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Independence
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Individuals that are aware of ourselves as such
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Invitational communication
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People express interest in interacting
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Explorational communication
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A stage in which we explore the possiblilities for a relationship
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Intensifying communication
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Increases the depth of a relationship by increasing the amount and intimacy of interaction
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