... Dyadic - confronting partner with the negative thoughts. 3) Social - deciding what to do from this stage on. 4) Grave-dressing - communicating a socially acceptable account of the end of the relationship. Both of the above models give good advice on how to deal with the dissolution of a relationship but neither gives an answer to the question "why do some relationships dissolve and others do not?" To give an answer to this question, Duck (1992) suggested that risk factors may be the cause of the dissolution of relationships. He identified several factors which are classified as predisposing (internal factors such as the personalities of the two people) and precipitating (external factors such as job loss) factors. Jealousy and infidelity are two common precipitating factors, this is related to insecurity about the relationship (Salovey 1991). But this suggestion cannot be completely reliable because many relationships are maintained despite these factors. A further factor ...

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