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79a33knapp Stages of Relationship

Knapp's Stage Model of Relationship Development outlines stages for both coming together and coming apart in relationships. The stages of coming together are initiating, experimenting, intensifying, integrating, and bonding. The stages of coming apart are differentiating, circumscribing, stagnating, avoiding, and terminating, where communication decreases and partners distance themselves both emotionally and physically before ending the relationship through summary discussions.

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79a33knapp Stages of Relationship

Knapp's Stage Model of Relationship Development outlines stages for both coming together and coming apart in relationships. The stages of coming together are initiating, experimenting, intensifying, integrating, and bonding. The stages of coming apart are differentiating, circumscribing, stagnating, avoiding, and terminating, where communication decreases and partners distance themselves both emotionally and physically before ending the relationship through summary discussions.

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Knapps Stage Model of Relationship Development 1.

Stages of Coming Together Initiating: Make initial contact: conversation openers

Experimenting: Get acquainted by making small talk, learn about each other; pleasant & uncritical Intensifying: Integrating: Truly interpersonal relationship; expression of feelings, more touching, familiar forms of address Take on an identity as a social unit: we/us; take on each others commitments, share common property, spend holidays together, develop own customs & habits for daily routines to intimacy Symbolic public display of relationship, weddings, legal ties, declaration of exclusivity

Bonding:

2. Stages of Coming Apart Differentiating: Reestablish individual identities; maintain commitment to the relationship while creating the space for being an individual; appears when relationship experiences first inevitable stress Circumscribing: Communication decreases in quantity and quality; restrictions and restraints characterize this stage; rather than discuss a disagreement, opt for withdrawal; interest & commitment wane Stagnating: Unenthusiastically have the same conversations and follow the same routines without any sense of joy or novelty; no growth; relationship is a shadow of its former self Create distance when stagnation becomes too unpleasant

Avoiding:

Terminating: Summary dialogues about where the relationship went and the desire to dissociate.

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