Types of interpersonal relationships

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There are many degrees of interpersonal relationship studied by psychologists These may be grouped under these main headings.

• Family relationships
• Intimate relationships
• Social relationships

Family relationships

• Mother
• Father
• Sons
• Daughters

• Father child relations
• Mother child relations

• Brothers
• Sisters

• Kinship
• Cousins

By social arrangement

• Cohabitation
• Common-law marriage
• Divorce
• Marriage

By family structure

• Nuclear family
• Monogamy
• Polygamy

Intimate relationships

• Courtship

Social relationships

• Friendship

See also

• Animal pair bonding
• List of basic relationship topics
• Neuroscience and intimate relationships
• Neuroscience of animal pair bonding