Corina Morales
Professor Butler
April 26, 2014
Interpersonal Communication
Activity 10: Forming
Relationships
Relationship type 1: Husband
Relationship forming factors: Personality Traits, Similarity-Complementarity, and Proximity
Description of how these forming factors helped form this type of relationship:
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Personality Traits: Well believe it or not, my husband’s neurotic personality is what drew me
closer and built the curiosity and interest to get to know him more.
Similarity-Complementarity: Finding out that we had a lot of troubling things, from our past,
that were similar and believing that we could build a better future is what kept us together
and has pushed us to follow through with making the changes necessary to follow our
dreams. I also believe that we have always been strong for each other when the other was
weak and therefore, the fact that we complement each other is also part of the reason why
and how our relationship has lasted 12 years.
Proximity: About a week or two of dating my husband, I had nowhere to live and ended up
staying with him and his family. That gave us a chance to jump into the relationship on a
deeper physical, mental, and spiritual level.
Relationship type 2: Friend
Relationship forming factors: Personality Traits, Similarity-Complementarity, Proximity
Description of how these forming factors helped form this type of relationship:
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Personality Traits: I believe that because she had such an extraverted, agreeable, and open
personality (positive traits) that it was these things that caused our friendship to begin and let
our friendship flourish.
Similarity-Complementarity: My friend and I had some things in common but we were also
different in a lot of ways. I think that because of our belief in the higher spirit and our spiritual
urge to find out where our beliefs would lead us gave us a spiritual connection and took our
friendship to a deeper level very quickly.
Proximity: We both went to school together, therefore, we saw each other just about every
day. This played a big part in what pushed us to build our friendship as deep as we did. I
believe that if we did not have the opportunity to see each other this much and talk this much
that we might have missed the opportunity to get to know each other on the level we did.
Relationship type 3: Sister
Relationship forming factors: Personality Traits, Physical Appearance, Similarity-Complementarity,
Proximity
Description of how these forming factors helped form this type of relationship:
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Personality Traits: My sister is open, agreeable, conscientious, and extraverted. Because she
has so many good qualities about her, I am very attracted to these things about her and am
comfortable and feel good while communicating and sharing ideas with her.
Physical Appearance: My sister has always taken pride in her appearance and managed her
personal hygiene well. She has always given me a good example to follow. She also has
encouraged me to take care of myself.
Similarity-Complementarity: Because my sister and I were raised together, she has been able
to help me work out some of my issues from our past by helping me to view them differently
and has helped me find something positive in everything. Because we both have these things
in common now, we are here to pick each other up, when the other is down.
Proximity: I believe that if it weren’t for me and my sister growing up together that we would
not have found our way back to each other to build the close relationship that we have today
because we have once been viewed as complete opposites from each other and were never
really close growing up.