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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. Social connection - Wikipedia

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    Social support is the help, advice, and comfort that we receive from those with whom we have stable, positive relationships. [11] Importantly, it appears to be the perception, or feeling, of being supported, rather than objective number of connections, that appears to buffer stress and affect our health and psychology most strongly.

  5. 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]

  6. Friending and following - Wikipedia

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    These are companies and other organizations who maintain a "friending" relationship as a contacts list. [9] complete strangers These are social networking "friends" with whom one has no relationship at all. [9] Within these categories "friends" can be made up of strong ties, weak existing ties, weak latent ties, and parasocial ties. [7]

  7. Why it's important to keep your friends when starting a new ...

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    Our friends benefit our health. By making time for friends while in a relationship, the relationship maintains its spark and stays healthy. Scroll through these pictures to see ideal # ...

  8. Frenemy - Wikipedia

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    Frenemy type relationships become routine and common because of the shared interest of business dealings or competition. [ citation needed ] Sigmund Freud said of himself that "an intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable to my emotional life…not infrequently…friend and enemy have coincided in the same person".

  9. Guanxi - Wikipedia

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    Guanxi has 3 sub-dimensions sometimes abbreviated as GRX which stands for ganqing, a measure of the emotional attachment in a relationship, renqing (人情 rénqíng/jen-ch'ing), the moral obligation to maintain a relationship with reciprocal exchange of favors, and xinren, or the amount of interpersonal trust. [8]