Relationships are very important. Many people believe that technology robs us of meaningful personal interactions. Relationships satisfy three basic needs. Those needs are inclusion, control, and affection.
Many attempts have been made to measure inclusion. Inclusion comes with highly personalized nature. To what degree of interaction should an individual go to be accepted in a community? Desires for control seem natural. We have a will to influence our environment. This could be detrimental to relationships when both parties are miserable. Affection plays a very significant role in relationships. It is the underlying dimension of interpersonal relationships and proves crucial to our existence.
Relationships are complex and always changing. Relationships may stabilize at any stage. The several stages of relationships are initiating, experimenting, intensifying, integrating, bonding, differentiating, circumscribing, stagnating, avoiding, and termination.
The initiating stage may be brief. This may occur through countless means. Some examples are social settings, stranger to stranger encounters, school, and workplace. In the experimenting stage, individuals find out the basis for their relationships. Friendships intensify in the third stage as individuals concentrate and build on common grounds. During the integrating stage individuals start feeling closeness for each other. There is a need for doing things together. Special relationships move to bonding. Bonding comes in several forms such as rituals, history, and intimacy. It is healthy to differentiate. In the circumscribing stage, individuals should continue to feed energy into their relationship. During stagnation individuals find themselves going through motions. The avoiding stage is seen as the fight and flight stage. Tensions in the stagnating stage may lead to a combination of fight and flight. The terminating stage is seen as a breaking off or letting go stage.
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