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Relationship Paper In this paper, I will be writing about a close friendship that ended over time with a high school friend whose name is Paulette. Through this friendship we had many fun high school memories, and I would say we were almost like best friends because we told each other everything. I noticed our friendship started deteriorating little by little after we graduated high school and more and more when went our separate ways for college. The five stages I will be explaining from Mark Knapp’s Development model will be Initiating, Intensifying, Differentiating, Stagnating, and Avoiding (Adler pg. 287-293). Initiating is key in every relationship because if you never initiated with a person how would you start a relationship or friendship with them (Adler 288). Basically, initiating is how you meet and/ or show that you are interested on starting a relationship with them it can be a friendship or a romantic …show more content…

Avoiding, my personal definition of avoiding is when the two people in the relationship/friendship don’t spend much time together, but it is not because they can’t it’s because they don’t want to. From personal experience I can agree with this because as time passed I felt further away from Paulette, and honestly I didn’t feel like talking to her. I noticed that every time I was with her or I spoke to her I became annoyed and irritated very fast, and there were moments where I could tell she felt the same way. Whenever she attempted to hang out with me I would just say that I was unavailable or that I was doing something else. I made excuses after excuses not to hang out with her, but she did the same when I attempted to make plans with her. In all honestly I think that I was avoiding her more than she was avoiding me. Avoiding is the stage right before Terminating a relationship, but in this case it would have been a

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