The Exchange Relationship

I thought of a good example for the idea of the exchange relationship. An exchange relationship is a relationship in which both people want and to put in the same costs and receive the same rewards as the other person, thus making the relationship equal. In the novel The Joy Luck Club, one of the characters, Lena, and her husband, Harold, decide to split everything in their relationship - making it fair and equal. They split all of the costs, right down to who buys the cat food! In the end, Lena is very unsatisfied with the constant auditing of who's putting in what and who's receiving what. In the end,this plan for equality pushed the couple away from one another.





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