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Title: Intimate%20Relationships%20and%20Communication


1
Intimate Relationships and Communication
  • Chapter 4

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Developing Intimate Relationships
  • Successful Relationships require
  • Positive Self-concept and Self-esteem
  • developed in infancy and childhood
  • gender roles
  • attachment
  • adult styles of loving
  • less than ideal childhood can still have a
    successful relationship

3
Developing Intimate Relationships
  • Successful Relationships require
  • Friendships
  • based on companionship, respect, acceptance,
    help, trust, loyalty and reciprocity
  • may be longer lasting and more stable

4
Love, Sex, and Commitment
  • One of the most basic and profound human
    emotions.
  • These 3 are linked ideals in intimate
    relationship.
  • Characteristics of love, sex and commitment.

5
Sternbergs Classifications of Love
  • Based on degrees of intimacy, passion and
    commitment
  • Liking
  • Infatuation
  • Romantic
  • Fatuous
  • Empty
  • Companionate
  • Consummate

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The Pleasure and Pain of Love
  • Recognize the human emotions
  • Two components
  • Physiological arousal
  • Emotional explanation

8
The Transformation of Love
  • All relationships change over time.
  • High levels of passion.
  • Growth of intimacy.
  • Reduction of romance and or passion to the
    transformation of deep love.

9
Stresses on a Intimate Partnership
  • Unequal or Premature commitment
  • Unrealistic Expectations
  • Competitiveness
  • Balance of Time together and apart
  • Jealousy

10
Successful Relationships
  • Realistic expectations
  • Mutual trust
  • Open communication
  • Effective ways to resolve conflict
  • Agreement on religious/ethical values
  • Equal roles
  • Balance of individual and joint interests

11
Ending a Relationship
  • Reasons why?
  • Guidelines of a breakup
  • Fair chance
  • Be fair
  • Be tactful
  • Time for resolving your anger and pain
  • The value of the experience

12
Communication
  • Nonverbal
  • Ability to interpret nonverbal messages
  • Self-disclosure
  • Listening
  • Feedback is a constructive response
  • Gender differences in communication

13
Conflict and Conflict Resolution
  • Conflict resolution skills are vital for
    maintaining intimate relationships.
  • Clarify the issue.
  • Find out what each person wants.
  • Identify various alternatives.
  • Decide how to negotiate.
  • Solidify the agreements.
  • Review and negotiate.

14
Pairing and Singlehood
  • Choosing a Partner.
  • Attraction.
  • Similarities.
  • Communication.
  • Acceptance.

15
Dating
  • Different cultures have different rituals for
    finding a mate.
  • American Culture.
  • Getting to know each other.
  • Traditional male-female dating pattern.
  • Dating of young people.

16
Cohabitation
  • Factors of acceptance
  • Rarely continues indefinitely
  • Advantages
  • Liabilities

17
Partnership
  • Gay and Lesbian
  • Sexual orientation
  • Homosexual relationships in relation to
    heterosexual relationships
  • Traditional gender roles
  • Societal attitudes

18
Singlehood
  • Diverse group
  • Factors that contribute to a growing number
  • Advantages
  • Disadvantages
  • Enjoyment depends upon

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Marriage
  • Benefits of Marriage
  • Issues of marriage
  • Role of Commitment

21
Divorce
  • High rates.. Why?
  • Process of Divorce.
  • Physical separation.
  • Emotional separation.
  • Greatest stress producing event next to the death
    of a spouse.
  • Recovery from divorce.
  • Remarriage.

22
Family Life
  • Becoming a Parent
  • Family life cycle
  • Preparation for parenthood
  • Own stability and readiness to be a parent
  • Physical health
  • Teenage parenting
  • Over the age of 35
  • Nutritional habits
  • Genetics
  • Financial
  • Considered educational and career plans
  • Emotionally ready
  • Social support
  • Attitudes and aptitudes

23
Preconception Care
  • Preexisting medical condition
  • Current use of medications and drugs
  • Use of tobacco and/or alcohol
  • Past problems with pregnancy
  • Disease risks and immunization history
  • Dietary habits
  • Family history of genetic diseases or multiple
    births

24
Birth of First Child
  • Stressful transition
  • Return to traditional gender roles
  • Each stage of the Family Life Cycle
  • New parents
  • worry about choices and mistakes
  • no set rules
  • most important is to promote satisfaction for all
    family members.

25
Birth of First Child
  • Later stages balance between giving freedom and
    setting limits
  • Marital satisfaction tends to decline when
    children are in school

26
Building Blocks of Parenting
  • Modeling
  • Trust
  • Respect
  • Love and Discipline
  • Honesty
  • Positive Statements
  • Time, Attention, Concern

27
Single-parent Families
  • Differences to a traditional family life cycle.
  • Difficulties experienced as a single parent.
  • Single Fatherhood.
  • Children from single-parent families.

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Stepfamilies or Blended Families
  • 3 out of 4 women and 4 out of 5 men will remarry.
  • Should not be expected to duplicate the emotions
    and relationships of an intact family.
  • Healthy stepfamilies are less cohesive and more
    adaptable than healthy intact families. Allow for
    more individual differences.
  • More of a history they have the more of a family
    unit is built.

30
Qualities of Successful Families
  • Commitment
  • Appreciation
  • Communication
  • Time together
  • Spiritual wellness
  • Coping with stress and crisis

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