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Summary with the 8th edition of Intimate Relationships by Miller

This book is about the study and understanding of intimate relationships i.e. friends and lovers. Intimate relationships are different from casual relationships in that they involve the following qualities:Knowledge: Intimate partners share secrets, gaining an extensive personal knowledge of each other.Caring: Intimate partners are affectionate, and relationships are closer when that respect and appreciation is reciprocal.Interdependence: Intimate partners need each other – they influence each other a great deal, in many different ways, often, and enduringly over time. Goals and struggles are shared, as are consequences.Mutuality: Intimate partners see themselves as a coupling, an us, instead of two separate individuals. This change, becoming us, is often an important moment of bonding in their relationships (The Inclusion of the Other in the Self Scale, figure 1.1).Trust: Trust is the...