ABSTRACT
We have seen that a relationship is best viewed not as an entity but as a process in continuous creation through dialectical relations with other levels of social complexity (Frontispiece). Here we are concerned primarily with the dialectical relations with the interactions within the relationship. Each interaction, as we have seen, is affected by past interactions and by expectations of future ones: thus the nature of the relationship affects the interactions within it, and those interactions affect the future of the relationship, though what happens between interactions may also play a role.
