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<p>This thought-provoking volume offers an innovative and intriguing approach to the study of long-distance relationships. Author Laura Stafford examines romantic long-distance relationships and then expands the conception of long-distance relationships to include other relational types. She summarizes literature across the social sciences on various types of long-distance relationships and extracts themes and patterns across the relational types. In so doing she reconsiders approaches to and offers an expanded vision of relational maintenance.<br><br>By expanding her scope beyond romantic relationships Stafford includes those that span residences and relational types such as noncustodial parent-child and geographically and residentially separated adult children and parents. She contends that face-to-face interaction is not necessary to maintain healthy relationships and questions the assumption that maintaining rather than terminating a particular relationship is always best for the involved parties.<br><br>With its interdisciplinary approach to challenging commonly held assumptions about communication and close relationships <i>Maintaining Long-Distance and Cross-Residential Relationships</i> will be engaging reading for scholars in communication psychology sociology mass communication and family studies. It is also appropriate for special topics graduate courses on long-distance relationships and human communication and will serve as a unique supplemental text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in interpersonal relational and family communication and family studies.</p>