Concepts on the Final

Relational Conflict Myths
-Conflict Styles

Relational Stages
Contact
-Perceptive Influences

Involvement
-Testing
-Intensification

Intimacy
-Helen Fisher's Loves
-Aristotle's Loves

Deterioration
-Communicative Behaviors

Repair
- Why We Stay Together

• Inertia
• Fear
• Emotional Attachment
• Children
• Commitment

Dissolution
- Why Things Fall Apart

• Unrealistic Beliefs
• Undefined Expectations
• Excessive Intimacy Claims
• Change
• Money
• Work
• Sex

Relational Amelioration

• Own your word
• Own your emotions
• Own your direction
• Release your expectations
• Release your past
• Realize Gratitude

Relational Maintenance

• Fidelity
• Friendship
• Forgiveness

The Mastery of Love

• The Track of Love, The Track of Fear
• The Man who Didn't Believe in Love
• The Magical Kitchen
• Sex, The Biggest Demon in Hell