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Healthy, successful relationships require several things: clear communication, empathy, appreciation—but first and foremost, trust. “Trust is the foundation of any relationship,” says Reena ...
A low-trust relationship is one in which a person has little confidence their partner is truly concerned about them or the relationship. [47] People in low trust relationships tend to make distress-maintaining attributions [jargon] [48] whereby they place their greatest focus on the consequences of their partner's negative behavior, and any ...
A low-trust society is defined as one in which interpersonal trust is relatively low, and shared ethical values are lacking. [1] Conversely, a high-trust society is one where interpersonal trust is relatively high, and where ethical values are strongly shared.
Committed relationship – interpersonal relationship based upon a mutually agreed-upon commitment to one another involving exclusivity, honesty, trust or some other agreed-upon behavior. The term is most commonly used with informal relationships, such as "going steady", but may encompass any relationship where an expressed commitment is involved.
While many intimate relationships include a physical or sexual component, the potential to be sexual is not a requirement for the relationship to be intimate. For example, a queerplatonic relationship is a non-romantic intimate relationship that involves commitment and closeness beyond that of a friendship. [14]
For example, a long-distance relationship is mostly based on conversation, along with a good balance of virtual sexual intimacy. [6] A long-distance relationship can be stronger, in comparison to a normal one, because it forces the two partners to enhance the conversation process by asking productive questions to ensure mutual communication. [7]
Generalized trust, also known as spontaneous sociability, [1] is the trust that people have in their fellow members of society in general. It is often measured in survey-based social science research by asking the question, "Generally speaking, would you say that most people can be trusted or that you can’t be too careful in dealing with people?"
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 ...