Disconfirmation by indifference denies other’s existence. There are three characteristics of disconfirmation by indifference: denial of presence, avoiding involvement, and rejecting communication. The first type of characteristic from disconfirming …show more content…
My self-presentation goals were to be a great girlfriend. My relational goal was to maintain the relationship, open up communication to limit arguments, and begin looking for apartments together. After his suspension, communication got worse. I fail in my attempt to open up our communication channels; he had constantly focused on the suspension, which took away from the focus on our relationship. I didn’t realized how much damage that had caused the relationship. But he failed to recognize my intention to achieve the goal to save and maintain the relationship. At that point, he had different relations goals for the relationship, which he engage in the strategic inferential model, by using words or lack there of, to recognize his intentions and