In chapter 12 focusing on Baxter’s and Montgomery’s relational dialectics there are three dialectics that affect relationships. This caught my attention because it somewhat adds to Roger’s phenomenological approach, Berger’s uncertainty reduction theory, and Altman and Taylor’s social penetration theory (Griffin, 2008). The three dialectics are integration-separation, stability-change, and expression-nonexpression. There is a chart on page 157 that shows how these dialectics in internal and external conditions affect within the relationship and between the couple and community. It makes me think of a comment that Dr. Coopman wrote regarding my post on social penetration theory regarding personality structure. She commented that relationships are more complicated and referred to them as a puzzle. This completely makes sense to me now that I see how some the theories we have studied are only part of the entire picture.
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