Breakdown of romantic relationships

Today we discussed Duck's (also known as Rollie & Duck's) stage-model for the dissolution (or breakdown) of romantic relationships.

Here is the presentation on theories of maintenance (which can also be used to explain breakdown) and Duck's breakdown theory.

Here is a sheet giving more detail on Duck's theory with some questions relating to its evaluation.

We looked at an example answer for this question:
"Discuss one theory of the maintenance of romantic relationships and one theory of the breakdown of romantic relationships." (8 marks + 16 marks).

Homework is to complete this for Wednesday next week.

We will also have a 'wall game' on Friday next week - all studies / theories covered so far could come up!