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Relationship Model and Managing Interpersonal Conflict
Relationship Model
An example of a relationship that did not go as I had expected involves a friendship relationship in high school. Due to my friend’s behaviour of showing disapproval for anything he did not like, he ended up making fun of my style of dressing in front of other friends. I retaliated by hardly speaking or texting him over the next couple of weeks.
A failed interpersonal relationship may be addressed using a relationship model that includes five stages. First, the failed friendship can be rebuilt through contact of the two parties. This includes perceptions and interactional approaches to understanding the views of each side. The next stage is the involvement that provides for testing the relationship and intensifying it. Friends may advance to the intimacy phase that involves interpersonal commitment and social bonding. The next is the deterioration stage, where partners may either dissolve the relationship or repair it. If it is a viable relationship, repairing it would be the best approach.
Managing interpersonal conflict
Interpersonal conflict is described as any conflict that involves or more parties. It is a productive relationship when an individual learns ways of recognizing and working through interpersonal conflicts. There are numerous ways of managing interpersonal conflicts. One of the ways includes avoidance. I used avoidance strategy when faced with interpersonal conflict with friends buy ignoring what was happening between us. I thought by doing so, the conflict would dissipate or solve itself. Since the conflict between my friend involved unimportant issues, I would better use an accommodating strategy to improve the conflict. The approach would allow communication by listening to what my friend had to say.