| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 教育研究所 === 105 === This study investigates the intimate relationship and interaction process between depressions and their partners. This study employs narrative analysis: the researcher interviews two cohabiting heterosexual couples whose female partners are depressions, and employs the holistic-content and categorical-content analysis. The results of this study are as follows:
1.Due to their family experience, depressions have the needs for control, demand and anticipation. They show the same needs in their intimate relationships; in response to them, their partners show submission and tolerance, depression-centered mode of relationship. In addition, the intimacy of depressions leads to “high control” relationships.
2.When the “center of depression” mode break, depressions demand aggressively that their partner meet their expectation, which restarts the mode. Facing this, their partners withdraw, and the “demand-withdraw” mode may be necessary to avoid conflicts. To prevent the demand-withdraw mode from exacerbating their relationships, it is vital for their partners to adjust themselves. This process is still the “center of depression” mode where partners change or adjust themselves to fulfill the expectations of the depressions.
3.When it comes to helping depressions, social support from their partners is the most important factor.
4.Depression does not necessarily affect the satisfaction in intimate relationships, but good intimate relationships help depressions actively face depression.
Based on these results, the paper also discusses the limitation of the study .
Keywords: depression, intimate relationship, demand-withdraw, narrative analysis
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