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  2. Relationship maintenance - Wikipedia

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    Relationship maintenance (or relational maintenance) refers to a variety of behaviors exhibited by relational partners in an effort to maintain that relationship.Scholars define relational maintenance in four different ways: [1] to keep a relationship in existence, to keep a relationship in a specified state or condition, to keep a relationship in a satisfactory condition, and to keep a ...

  3. Human bonding - Wikipedia

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    Human bonding is the process of development of a close interpersonal relationship between two or more people.It most commonly takes place between family members or friends, [1] but can also develop among groups, such as sporting teams and whenever people spend time together.

  4. Guanxi - Wikipedia

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    Guanxi also refers to the benefits gained from social connections and usually extends from extended family, school friends, workmates and members of standard clubs or organizations. It is customary for Chinese people to cultivate an intricate web of guanxi relationships, which may expand in a huge number of directions, and includes lifelong ...

  5. Social grooming - Wikipedia

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    Social grooming is critical for vampire bats especially, since it is necessary for them to maintain food-sharing relationships in order to sustain their food regurgitation sharing behavior. [20] In Tibetan macaques , infants are seen as a valuable commodity that can be exchanged for favours; mothers allow non-mothers to handle their infants for ...

  6. Friendship - Wikipedia

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    Friendship jealousy acts as an alert to the self that a close friends' other friends may be a threat to the self's relationship with that close friend [61] which motivates the self to enact behaviors that prevent the close friend from further developing better relationships with their other friends. [33]

  7. Family - Wikipedia

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    The family of choice may or may not include some or all of the members of the family of origin. This family is not one that follows the "normal" familial structure like having a father, a mother, and children. This is family as a group of people that rely on each other like a family of origin would. [42]

  8. Affectional bond - Wikipedia

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    The individual wishes to maintain proximity or contact with the person with whom they have an affectional tie. The individual feels sadness or distress at involuntary separation from the person. (Attachment bond) The individual feels lonely & can not form other long lasting relationships & friendships.

  9. Frenemy - Wikipedia

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    They reach out to their family, friends, or significant others in inappropriate ways without their permission to find something out. Their over-involvement often bothers and irritates the friend. Competitive work frenemy: This kind of frenemy is a competitor to one person. Since they work in the same place or area, they behave well, make ...