Graduation Term
2015
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
School of Communication
Committee Chair
William R. Cupach
Abstract
This study explores the communication between former dating partners that have chosen to remain friends following the break-up. Post-dissolutional friendships are relationships with a legacy of romantic behavior turned into friends. Rules are a guide to behavior in relationships. Rules for both romantic relationships and friendships exist. This study discovered what rules guide the behavior in post-dissolutional friendship and how they relate to interpersonal solidarity.
Access Type
Thesis-Open Access
Recommended Citation
Ewing, Annelise Nicole, "When Lovers Become Friends: Rules of Post-dissolutional Friendships" (2015). Theses and Dissertations. 343.
https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/etd/343
DOI
http://doi.org/10.30707/ETD2015.Ewing.A