Watch a television sitcom or drama that focuses on one of the five major kinds of re- lationships discussed in this chapter (friendship, love, family, workplace, and online- only relationships), and

 Watch a television sitcom or drama that focuses on one of the five major kinds of re- lationships discussed in this chapter (friendship, love, family, workplace, and online- only relationships), and respond to the following questions: 

1. How are the relationships defined? What specific verbal or nonverbal behaviors cue you into the kind of relationship existing between or among the characters? 

2.What types of attraction exist between or among the characters?

 3.How would you describe the relationship in terms of social exchange and equity theories?

 4.Can you identify any example of relationship dialectics operating here? 

5.What rules do the relationship partners follow? What rules do they violate? 

6. Write about a time in which you said something you later regretted. How might you have handled it differently? (respond in two to three paragraphs)

 7. Then write about what you should have said instead. (respond in two to three paragraphs)