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1 Intimate Relations Video-Based Case Study Angelia Haupt Ottawa University PSY 32153: Social Psychology Dr. Taylor 06/23/2024

2 One Man, Six Wives And 29 Children Tom Green lives in southern Utah with his six wives and 29 children. This documentary showcases the polygamous lifestyle of the Green family and how they experience love and their relationships with one another. There is a plethora of psychological concepts within this documentary including social support, close relationships, mere exposure, companionate love, communal relationships and many others. “Polygamy is the practice or custom of having more than one wife or husband at the same time” (University of Minnesota, 2015). Green is very proud of his relationships with each of his wives and goes on to explain why he believes more people should practice polygamy “…. if God calls them to do so” (Real Stories, 2016). The Beginnings “Social support is defined as the approval, assistance, advice, and comfort that we receive from those with whom we have developed stable positive relationships” (University of Minnesota, 2015). Green met each of his wives through their FLDS religious community (Real Stories, 2016). He had known many of the women since they were very young. These women and Green all had the love and acceptance of their religious community to build relationships with one another and this demonstrated having social support. The Green family had to relocate to southern Utah to keep practicing polygamy and developed their own social support within the circle of the wives and Green himself. “Mere exposure is the tendency to prefer stimuli including, but not limited to, people that we have seen frequently” (University of Minnesota, 2015). Green met each of his wives through his religious community. The women were all approach by Green. He let each of the women know that he was interested in them and then the women had to make the choice on if they wanted to build a relationship with Green and his wives or not. Green had stated that while he

3 was trying to get to know potential wives, he wanted to expose the potential wives to his current wives and family so that they could understand what their relationships were all about (Real Stories, 2016). Green demonstrated mere exposure by making these little dates with potential wives to acclimate them with the polygamist lifestyle and Green himself. The more that these potential wives were around Green, the more attracted to the family and lifestyle they got. Relationships The Green family showcased close relationships and communal relationships in this documentary. Close relationships are defined as relationships between people that are characterized by loving, caring commitment, and intimacy (University of Minnesota, 2015). Green demonstrated close relationships with each of his wives throughout the documentary. Green knew what each wife liked and disliked, as well as their strengths, what he liked most about each of them, and what they each brought or contributed to the family and their relationships with him. The wives of this documentary demonstrated more communal relationships within the family. Communal relationships are “close relationships in which partners suspend their need for equity and exchange, giving support to their partner in order to meet his or her needs, and without consideration of the costs to themselves” (University of Minnesota, 2015). These women take on household duties and take on the role of primary caregiver within each home so that Green can continue his quest to obtain more wives and become more holy in the eyes of his church (Real Stories, 2016). Green has a rotating schedule that his wives have worked out that schedules which wife sleeps in his home on which night of the week. Green also works in times to spend some time with each of his children. The wives have broken the children up into “teams” to help with Green’s schedule of interacting with his kids as well (Real Stories, 2016).

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