1. TYPES OF RELATIONSHIPS

2. Create a Continuum of Human Relationships

3. Continuum of Human Relationships
As you move away from family, you will meet new people and develop a variety of new relationships
Relationships vary in their degree of intimacy/commitment
Human Contact
Acquaintances
Proximity Friends
Selected Friends
Significant Friends
Intimate Others

4. Human Contacts
No commitment

5. Acquaintances
We acknowledge them

6. Proximity Friends
Only because we live, work, or play in the same area

7. Selected Friends
Develop from proximity friendships due to common interests, backgrounds, enjoy their company, etc.

8. Significant Friends
Share personal feelings and disclose things about ourselves (more than ‘selected friends’)

9. Intimacy Involves deep emotional bond and high level of trust.
DOES NOT necessarily imply ‘sexual closeness’
Sexual involvement doesn’t always involve intimacy
We can be ‘intimate’ with family or very close friends

10. Social Media
How has Facebook and other forms of social media impacted friendship and the continuum of human relationships?

11. In your notes….
A) Describe different ways of being intimate. Provide believable examples (real or pretend).
B) What are some individual prerequisites (personality traits/characteristics) that would help someone with intimacy?
C) What are some individual impediments (personality traits/characteristics) that would stop/impede one’s ability to be intimate
Remember, INTIMACY = deep emotional bond and high level of trust.