M2D1 The type of attraction that the wife had for the Canadian couple was social attraction. I think she was socially attracted to them because they were all teachers and had a lot in common because of their jobs. This being said, I feel that the two couple’s had to have had some kind of physical attraction to each other at first to have begun talking. “Moreover, research suggests that early on in a relationship, we are more likely to expose ourselves to and be influenced by a source we perceive as physically attractive” (Wrench, McCroskey, & Richmond, 2008, pg. 35). This is why I think that the husband didn’t say anything, I believe he might have liked them at first but he wasn’t social attracted to the couple like his wife. So when he realized …show more content…
I think that her husband has made his mind up that he doesn’t care for the people and he wants to spend time with his wife not another couple that he doesn’t like. The American couple had different views on the couple because the wife was a teacher like the Canadian couple and so they had similar jobs. The husband, Harold, was a businessman so he did not have that similarity in careers with the couple. I feel being a business man he also didn’t want to talk about “business” on his vacation. I feel being a business man he also didn’t want to talk about “business” on his vacation (Wrench, McCroskey, & Richmond, 2008, pg. 36). “Individuals in homophilic relationships share common characteristics (beliefs, values, education, etc.) that make communication and relationship formation easier”(Wikipedia, 2015). I had my children a lot later than most of my friends so when I had my twins, I lost touch with a lot of them because their kids were older and they were different things then my husband and I. We were staying at home with our children and our friends were doing other things like going out on weekends and on vacations that were not possible for us. It wasn’t until recently that we started to get together more with our friends again because we are able to spend more time with them because we feel we can leave our children with a