Intimacy and the magnitude and experience of episodic relational uncertainty within romantic relationships

Personal Relationships

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 457-478

  Knobloch, Leanne K ^b   Solomon, Denise Haunani ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b Lincoln Hall ^*  (United States)

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EID: 23044532848     PISSN: 13504126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6811.09406     Document Type: Article

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