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Part II - Theories of Relationship Maintenance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2019

Brian G. Ogolsky
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University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
J. Kale Monk
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University of Missouri
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Relationship Maintenance
Theory, Process, and Context
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