Analysis_of_Relational_Communication.docx(1) COM 100 Analysis of Relational Communicat

Analysis_of_Relational_Communication.docx(1)    COM 100  Analysis of Relational Communication: Ryan Clarke  Department of Communications, Grand Canyon University  COM 100: Fundamentals of Communication  Have you ever met someone that you have just clicked instantly with? Well, I did this summer, and he has quickly become a friend I can count on. His name is Ryan Clarke; we are both from small towns and have similar life experiences—leading to a temporary bonding pe- riod. Although I do not know him that well, we have progressed through Mark Knapp's Stage Development Model to the maintaining section (Knapp's Relationship Model); applying the Re- lational Dialectics Theory, we have very few contradictions.  In the initiation portion, he was playing music, and I noticed he liked an obscure country band. I complimented the music selection, and he could not believe I knew the band. We intro- duced ourselves, and I found out he was from a small town; this moved us into the experimenta- tion phase. He told me a story of him putting homemade bombs in mailboxes in 8th grade. Growing up, I was also in trouble with similar pranks. We spent most of the night playing coun- try songs, drinking, and talking with our friends about our many mostly fabricated sexual con- quests—to put it simply, it was just a bunch of guys being dudes.  When the camping trip concluded, the boys invited me to a poker night every Friday that has become a weekly tradition for most of us. I would consider the first few poker nights the in- tensifying stag