HDFS 129 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Calcification
30 Oct 2018
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The ability to experience an open, supportive, and tender relationship with another person without fear of losing one"s self. The desire to understand the other person. Ability to put aside one"s self at times because self is secure. Commitment first to own identity, second to other. This doesn"t mean that you aren"t in relationships. The key issue here is connecting to another without fear of losing one"s self, you can only do that when identity is achieved. This applied to both friendships and romantic relationships. Beginning in adolescence, female friendships are face to face and male friendships are side by side. Spend a great deal of time talking together. Feel shut out when friends refuse to self-disclose. Males report that they derive less enjoyment from relationship talk as they get older. Males do not necessarily feel lonely when not self-disclosing. Keep in mind that this data is for heterosexual males and females.
