Week 4 #2

I like the ideas of Comparison Level--Gaging relationl Satisfaction in Chapter 9. Peter was looking forward to call his girlfriend on Sunday night, and talked more than 30 minutes to her. The coversation made Peter happy. In our rountine life, our friendship, romance, and family ties is pegged by our relational history. For example, my son became a third grader at the new semester. Even though he was happy with his new third grade teacher and classmates in the classroom, he still loved to play with his second grade classmates at the recess time. He feel happy and safe with his relational history. Few weeks later, he spent more time playing with his third grade classmates and less time with the old classmates. His new relational ties is taken the place of his relational history. But the relational history gives a stable emotion for people to begin or develop new relational ties.