The Wheel Of Love Theory

Growing up, my parent 's marriage was always conflict habituated. Their relationship was mostly intense with commotion and arguments. They never seem to get along well. As a child, seeing my parent 's relationship, I conceptualize that love wasn 't really real nor was it important. As I got older, my parent horrible treatment towards one another became something I carried on as well, due to all the years of the actions being modeled. Although, I told myself that I would not become like my parents, that I wouldn 't mistreat my partner, I would be able to control my anger, and that I wouldn 't emotional abuse my partner, I ended up making all those mistakes because that was all that i know growing up. I didn 't know what real love was like or

Me and my partner were very similar than we are different. We shared common interest, values, goals, and personalities. Due to the similarity, our communication and development of our relationship grew stronger. The development of our relationship is similar to Reiss ' Wheel Of Love Theory. In the Wheel Of Love Theory, the cycle involves stages of rapport, self-revelation, mutual dependency, and personality need fulfillment. In the first stage, when two people meet with shared interests,values, and background, the couple is more likely to feel attracted to one another. As a result, the relatiohsip grows into something more due to the attraction. With common interests and values, couples develop a trust and respect for one another. I trusted my partner and was interested into wanting to develop a deeper realtionship with my partner because of the homogamy we

In addition, we start feeling comfortable being vulnerable to our partner and start disclosing personal information. As we move into mutual dependency and need of fulfillment, we start to center our life oon our relationships, depending on our partners, and spending most of our time with our partners. Dedicating most of your time on your relationship with your partner increases emotional fulfillment, intimacy, and satisfication in the relationship. Personally for me, it toke time for me to get into the second stage. It toke time for me to trust a person and disclose personal information. It was also much more difficult being vulnerable in front my partner. However, overtime my trust in my partner grew over time. As a result, our communication grew, we became each other support system during difficult time, had mutual understanding and respect for one another because of everything that had developed in our relationship that made us