Application of the Knapp Model
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Application of the Knapp Model
Introduction
Relationships involve people from different backgrounds coming together, either for the purposes of making friends or having a partnership in business (Welch & Rubin, 2002). I have chosen to discuss a relationship I had with a lady called Kalasha. We were schooling in the same college, and all of us liked singing hence making us meet in the school choir. I will discuss the experimental phase of the coming together of Knapp’s model using this relationship. When our relationship was at this point, Kalasha and I would talk about our lives’ more general things. We would talk about our interests, especially when it comes to schooling. We even compared how our families handled different issues and how we would want them to be done. We did all our lunch breaks together as we had so much to talk about at such a time. From our time to time talks, we found out that we had so much in common that we all had the same interest in music and clubbing (Lumen, n.d).
The coming apart stage of our relationship was very critical to us. We had gone through so many confrontations because I had been found cheating on several accounts. I was guilty at some point, but I could not stay for long, crying about it. Our relationship came to a standstill when she started to avoid me. She could not pick my call at any time and even changed her passwords on her phone. At this point, our regular lunch breaks were not there as she would hang out more with her friends, something that had never happened before. Since I had also become tired of the situation, I could not beg her any longer. I decided to focus more on my life and much more on my final exams that were approaching. It was not long enough to send her a text message requesting that we end our relationship or maybe if she could just be friends with me. She agreed to end the relationship and told me that she would think about the friendship offer later (Welch & Rubin, 2002).
References
Lumen (n.d) Knapp’s Relational Development Model | Interpersonal Communication. Retrieved 6 November 2020, from https://courses.lumenlearning.com/interpersonalcommunicationxmaster/chapter/knapps-relational-development-model/#:~:text=Experimentation%20is%20the%20second%20stage,learn%20information%20about%20each%20other.&text=During%20the%20intensifying%20stage%20of,mutual%20emotional%20affection%20and%20attachment.
Welch, S. A., & Rubin, R. B. (2002). Development of relationship stage measures. Communication Quarterly, 50(1), 24-40.