Friendships are a normal everyday part of life, well at least for most people. The different stages of friendships classifies how "good" of friends you are, or how much work this so called friendship needs. In the following summary I will be describing two of my lifetime situations for analysis of Relational Developmental and Maintenance.
             Matt Farmer, I classified Matt as my best friend all through elementary school. Basically going through all the phases of a friendship. With Matt the Initiating Process of meeting was done naturally because we met when we were toddlers at Hyde Park. We went from going through the experimenting stage of course probably being one of us sharing G.I. Joes or something all the way through the avoiding stage in mid elementary back to the Bonding stage and now to the Terminating stage. Its funny how things worked out, but once I moved to north Austin we lost touch and he went on with his life and I went on with mine. The avoiding stage in Elementary occurred when we found different crowds and just didn't mix well. All in all its not that I wouldn't talk to the guy if I saw him again but its just that we have moved on and are two totally different people now.
             Probably the most interesting situation I've gone through would have to be my present girl friend, Lindsey Myogeto. I met her at a social function(a party) for young adults in high school. We met, I chit chatted with her to so to speak get in the door(Initiating) and of course went on through the steps of experimenting and all the way through the bonding stage with her. We ended up getting all the way to the avoiding stage because we ended up splitting up in our first relationship together. She went her way and I went mine. We came back together just by coincidence. I called her one random day about two months after we lost contact to catch up on old times and she asked me if she could see me again. I said yes, and we hit ...