This week's post is about Mark Knapp's Relational Model and how our relationships go through many stages. Some may grow with time, and some may decline.
A relationship in my life that has grown with time would be with my boyfriend. It's almost been one year since we started dating. We met over social media on a dating app and we both started in the "initiation" phase. He wanted to go on a date, so we met up and went out to dinner. Every week we would do something new, and we both were interested in this then moved to the "experimentation" phase. This is where we asked more questions about each other's lives and where I really wanted to get to know who he was. I of course asked him the silly basic questions like, "What's your favorite food" "Where would be your favorite vacation." Etc... We each had our own values, life stories, and family ideals. Which then leads us to the "Intensifying" stage in our relationship. Sharing bigger details about our lives and seeing if our political, religious, and life views were the same. And we found what our love languages were so we could overall nurture our relationship and grow together. We realized going to church and having a relationship with Jesus was going to be number one in our relationship. Which really overall brought us closer together and our relationship has strengthened because of it. And right now, that is where our relationship is in Knapp's Relational Model. And because of online communication, our relationship was able to flourish, and we were able to meet because without it we couldn't have known each other.
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