Cover Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Reading Research On Relationships -- 2 Attraction -- An Overview (and Underview) of Research and Theory within the Attraction Paradigm -- Sweet Talk: The Importance of Perceived Communication for Romantic and Friendship Attraction Experienced During a Get-Acquainted Date -- 3 Love -- Do Men and Women Love Differently? -- 'Remembrance of Things Past': Perceptions of Marital Love from its Beginnings to the Present -- Linking Romantic Love with Sex: Development of the Perceptions of Love and Sex Scale -- 4 Sexuality -- Has the Double Standard Disappeared? An Experimental Test -- Does the Sexual Double Standard Still Exist? Perceptions of University Women -- 5 Relationship Development -- Root Metaphors in Accounts of Developing Romantic Relationships -- The Paradox of Stability and Change in Relationships: What Does Chaos Theory Offer for the Study of Romantic Relationships? -- 6 Social Power -- Sex Differences in Bases of Power in Dating Relationships -- Power Strategies in Intimate Relationships -- 7 Relational Maintenance -- Strategies for Maintaining and Repairing Marital Relationships -- Relational Continuity Constructional Units and the Maintenance of Relationships -- Maintenance Behaviors, Expectations for Maintenance, and Satisfaction: Linking Comparison Levels to Relational Maintenance Strategies -- 8 Jealousy -- Inducing Jealousy: A Power Perspective -- Sex Differences in Jealousy in Evolutionary and Cultural Perspective: Tests from the Netherlands, Germany, and the United States -- 9 Conflict in Relationships -- Perceptions of Conflict in the First Year of Marriage: How Important are Similarity and Understanding? -- Demands and Withdrawal in Newlyweds: Elaborating on the Social Structure Hypothesis -- 10 Relationship Disturbance.

Trajectories of Relationship Disengagement -- 'I Love You Too Much to Ever Start Liking You': Redefining Romantic Relationships -- 11 Loneliness -- Loneliness and Relationally Competent Communication -- Loneliness in Marriage -- 12 The Importance of Social Networks -- The Personal is Social -- Comparative Methods for Delineating Social Networks -- Friendship, Sociology and Social Structure -- 13 Cyber Relationships -- Making Friends in Cyberspace -- 'Making MOOsic': The Development of Personal Relationships On Line and a Comparison to Their Off-line Counterparts -- Glossary -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.