Mark Knapp and Anita Vangelisti created a model for the development of relationships between close
friends and romantic couples. Identify the stages in coming together and the stages in coming apart.
Discuss how a relationship might not use every stage in the model.
What will be an ideal response?
The stages in coming together are as follows: initiating, experimenting, intensifying, integrating, and bonding. The
stages in coming apart are as follows: differentiating, circumscribing, stagnating, avoiding, and terminating. Some
couples reach the bonding stage, in marriage for example, and stay together their entire lives, only terminating the
relationship at the death of one or the other. Another example of not following every stage in the model could be if
one member of the couple is not sincere about the relationship so they initiate a terminating stage immediately after
an intensifying or integrating stage in the relationship; a "one-night-stand" for example.
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