All of us have established various close relationships with significant others while at school, but two of us noticed a pattern with our third friend that has changed the relative quality of our friendship and that has greatly contributed to the waning of our friendship with the third friend. At various times, all of us have either been in a significant relationship with a member of the opposite gender or we have been alone in that respect. One of my friends and I have always continued to share the same types of conversations and shared the same degree of confidence regardless of whether or not we happened to be in a relationship. The other friend has communicated with both of us very differently in that respect. Whenever he is not in a significant relationship, he shares highly personal details about his life just the same as we always have. However, both my other friend and I have noticed that whenever...

He never discusses his relationship in detail with us, either. Meanwhile, my other friend and I have continued to maintain the exact same types of disclosures in our communications when we happen to be in relationships. In that regard, we have noticed that anytime he happens to be in between girlfriends, he reverts right back to the same types of communications that we all used to share and that my other friend and I continue to share regardless of our respective relationship status. The frequency of our conversations has not changed significantly, but both of us have experienced the waning phenomenon because of the fundamental change in the quality and substantive content of our conversations with our other friend based on his relationship status.