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Relational Maintenance
A
Intentional strategies relational partners enact to keep
their relationship in a specified state or condition
2
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7 Relational Maintenance Strategies
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- positivity
- openness
- assurances
- social networks
- task sharing
- conflict management
- advice giving
- understanding
3
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6 negative relational maintenance strategies
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- spying
- jealously induction
- infidelity
- avoidance
- destructive conflict
- allowance of control
4
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Relational Maintenance Good Outcomes
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- increased relational satisfaction
- increased relational commitment
- decreased lonliness
- positivity and assurances most predictive
5
Q
Relational Maintenance Negative Outcomes
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-decreased satisfaction, allowing control, destructive conflict, jealously
6
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Reasons for long distance relationships
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- going away to college
- family moves
- graduate school
- military service
7
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Benefits of LDRs
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- more time to structure individual schedule
- opportunity to develop other relationships
- longer excitement “newness” of relationshio
- arrange mundane chores around time spent together
- feelings of love and romantic ideals stronger
- image of partner is more idealistic
- more control in the relationship
- college students do better academically and are better rested
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Drawbacks of LDRs
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- financial burden
- thoughts not in the moment (worrying)
- conflict (easier to handle poorly)
- difficulty explain other friends (problems with trust, jealously, feeling left out)
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Predictors of success in LDRs
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- having money helps
- frequency and variety of communication
- supportive friends and family
- spending more time together prior to the relationship becoming long distance
- previous relationship experience
- mutually agreed upon rules
- clear relationship trajectory (understand relationship goals)
- plan next time you will see each other
- perception of choice
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