Relationship Development - The progress of an interpersonal relationship, which develops over six stages.
Relationship Maintenance - A stage in a relationship that is not developing or deteriorating. Also behaviors that help continue and preserve a relationship.
Relationship Deterioration - The relationship stage where the members begin to drift apart and not advance their relationship.
Relationship Repair - A relationship stage where both partners seek to repair a relationship currently in the Relationship Deterioration stage.
Relationship Dissolution - The termination or end of an interpersonal relationship.
Uncertainty Reduction Theory - States that the less uncertainty (or the more familiarity) in a relationship seems to make that relationship stronger.
Relationship Maintenance - A stage in a relationship that is not developing or deteriorating. Also behaviors that help continue and preserve a relationship.
Relationship Deterioration - The relationship stage where the members begin to drift apart and not advance their relationship.
Relationship Repair - A relationship stage where both partners seek to repair a relationship currently in the Relationship Deterioration stage.
Relationship Dissolution - The termination or end of an interpersonal relationship.
Uncertainty Reduction Theory - States that the less uncertainty (or the more familiarity) in a relationship seems to make that relationship stronger.