Monday, June 23, 2008
Week Four Post: Chapter 9
One part of this weeks reading that interested me was the stages of relational escalation. The authors of the text offer five stages of relational escalation. The first step is initiating which one could consider as a man asking a woman for her phone number. The second stage is experimenting, which includes gathering information in detail about the person, such as "when is your birthday?" and "Are you a vegetarian?" The third stage is intensifying, which is just a more extreme version of experimenting, like learning how a person thinks and reading body language. The fourth stage is integrating, which is when the two people become more similar as they discover their partner, and their own likes and dislikes. The last stage is bonding which is something that proclaims the two people's affecion, like a wedding.
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Reading the five stages of escalation in a relationship is very interesting. Whenever I read about all these steps that are involved in asking someone out always makes me look back and reflect whenever I was in that situation. Its funny because we go through all these stages but I have never really realized it as steps until reading about it in the book. I think that is interesting that they include getting married as the last stage because every relationship an individual goes through usually doesn’t end in marriage.
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