{"product_id":"maintaining-long-distance-and-cross-residential-relationships-9780805851656","title":"Maintaining Long-Distance and Cross-Residential Relationships","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Laura Stafford\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Interpersonal Relations\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis thought-provoking volume offers an innovative and intriguing approach to the study of long-distance relationships. Author Laura Stafford examines romantic long-distance relationships and then expands the conception of long-distance relationships to include other relational types. She summarizes literature across the social sciences on various types of long-distance relationships and extracts themes and patterns across the relational types. In so doing, she reconsiders approaches to and offers an expanded vision of relational maintenance. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy expanding her scope beyond romantic relationships, Stafford includes those that span residences and relational types, such as noncustodial parent-child and geographically and residentially separated adult children and parents. She contends that face-to-face interaction is not necessary to maintain healthy relationships, and questions the assumption that maintaining, rather than terminating, a particular relationship is always best for the involved parties. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith its interdisciplinary approach to challenging commonly held assumptions about communication and close relationships, \u003ci\u003eMaintaining Long-Distance and Cross-Residential Relationships\u003c\/i\u003e will be engaging reading for scholars in communication, psychology, sociology, mass communication, and family studies. It is also appropriate for special topics graduate courses on long-distance relationships and human communication, and will serve as a unique supplemental text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in interpersonal, relational, and family communication and family studies.","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46930588663959,"sku":"9780805851656","price":3788.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780805851656.webp?v=1771607817","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/maintaining-long-distance-and-cross-residential-relationships-9780805851656","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}