Week Eleven Post 2: Filters

People use a lot of different filters to eliminate people from consideration as potential romantic partners. Some characteristics or behaviors that lead me to judge someone else as unattractive include people that are overly aggressive (often rude), or unmotivated men. Duck’s theory on relations dissolution discusses the four kinds of work involved in the dissolution of a relationship. I think that anyone who has ever been through a breakup can validate Duck’s theory. In the intrapsychic phase, the couple focuses in on their thoughts and feelings in the relationship, pretty much deciding if it’s more bad than good. In the next phase, the dyad talks about it to each other. In the third phase, they talk about it with others and in the final phase they review the entirety of the relationship.