The partners have reached the affective exchange stage when they start to feel willing to engage in criticisms because they are not typically viewed as a threat to the relationship.
The affective exchange stage can be described as a stage of the social penetration process where the partners become casual and comfortable enough with each other to share any kind of criticism between them.
The partners are more relaxed with each other in the affective exchange stage and any kind of advice or criticism in such a phase is not considered to be threatful to their relationship.
More intimate details are known about one partner to another in the affective exchange stage and the frankness level is high.
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