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Interpersonal Communication- A Mindful Approach to Relationships, 2020a

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Chapter 8<br />

Building and Maintaining<br />

<strong>Relationships</strong><br />

Over the course of our lives, we will enter in<strong>to</strong> and out of many different relationships. When it comes <strong>to</strong><br />

dating, the average person has seven relationships before getting married. 1 According <strong>to</strong> a study conducted<br />

by OnePoll in conjunction with Evite, the average American has:<br />

• Three best friends<br />

• Five good friends<br />

• Eight people they like but don’t spend one-on-one time with<br />

• 50 acquaintances<br />

• 91 social media friends 2<br />

In this chapter, we are going <strong>to</strong> discuss how we go about building and maintaining our interpersonal<br />

relationships.<br />

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<strong>Interpersonal</strong> <strong>Communication</strong>

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