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BrandiN. Frisby & Melanie Booth-Butterfield. (2012) The “How” and “Why” of Flirtatious Communication Between Marital Partners. Communication Quarterly 60:4, pages 465-480.
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MarianL. Houser, Christina Fleuriet & Dawn Estrada. (2012) The Cyber Factor: An Analysis of Relational Maintenance Through the Use of Computer-Mediated Communication. Communication Research Reports 29:1, pages 34-43.
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Marianne Dainton. (2008) The Use of Relationship Maintenance Behaviors as a Mechanism to Explain the Decline in Marital Satisfaction Among Parents. Communication Reports 21:1, pages 33-45.
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Young-ok Yum & Han Z. Li. (2007) Associations among Attachment Style, Maintenance Strategies, and Relational Quality across Cultures. Journal of Intercultural Communication Research 36:2, pages 71-89.
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