_____ are close, personal friends with whom one shares a high degree of interdependence, commitment, disclosure, understanding, affection, and trust.

a. Contacts
b. Strangers
c. Intimates
d. Acquaintances


c. Intimates
Intimates are close, personal friends with whom one shares a high degree of interdependence, commitment, disclosure, understanding, affection, and trust. We may have countless acquaintances and many friends, but we are likely to have only a few truly intimate relationships.

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