COM 1000 Study Guide - Interpersonal Relationship, Codependency, 3 Women
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Abusers create physical, psychological, and financial traps. 16-24 year olds are 3x more likely to be in abusive relationships. 500 abused women are killed each year in us. 1 in 3 women is domestically abused/stalked in her lifetime. Relational development is the initial stage that moves a couple from meeting to mating: maintenance. Relational maintenance is after a couple has bonded and they engage in keeping the relationship together. They are in motion and always changing. Dialectic tension that exists between two conflicting forces/ideas. Integration vs. separation: stability vs. change, expression vs. privacy, deterioration. Relational deterioration occurs because of the differences that develop between the couple. Evaluation is when someone judges someone else. Control is one person not allowing another to join a conversation. Neutrality is when an originator of a message doesn"t care about another person. Superiority is when the first person acts better than the other. Certainty is a lack of openness to other ideas.
