This manuscript advances “inclusion of the other in the self” as an alternative theoretical framework for understanding relational maintenance behavior. Using a qualitative data analytic strategy akin to early equity-theoretic relational maintenance research, this manuscript proposes a typology that conceptualizes maintenance behaviors as facilitating shared resources, identities, and perspectives. This approach complements both the equity theory perspective and related lines of interpersonal communication research.
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