• Family • Friends • Romantic • Relational networks • Online relationships

• Relationships meet our need for inclusion. • Relationships stimulate us. • Relationships help us achieve particular goals.

• Social exchange theory • Uncertainty reduction theory • Relational dialectics theory

• Initiating (individuals make initial contact with another person) • Exploratory (individuals seek surface-level information in order to learn more about the other person) • Intensification (relational partners become more intimate and engage in more personal self-disclosures) • Stable (marked by feelings of security and acknowledging that the relationship is no longer volatile or temporary) • Declining (unraveling of the relationship, and may have various causes) • Relationship repair (attempts by individuals in a declining relationship to save their connection through various repair tactics) • Termination stage (marked by the end of the relationship) • Reconciliation (rekindling of a terminated relationship)

• Relationships develop by sharing information that starts basic and becomes increasingly more private. • Communication privacy management • Strategic topic avoidance