series: Humor
description: Relationship Development Life Cycle (RDLC)
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Note: Design recommended but not limited to teams of 2 members.
Being a software programmer, I have a tendency to follow the development life cycle models in almost anything I do these days. So it did not come as a surprise for me when I realized that development life cycles applied to relationships too.
While seemingly absurd, the idea has some credible applications to its use. Relationships can be dramatically self-balanced if all the resources involved(usually occurring in pairs) adhere to the model set by the development life cycle. Effects such as anger, frustration, failure, etc. which are common in software projects can be dealt here in a similar manner. This variation of applying the software engineering approach is what I term as the Relationship Development Life Cycle(RDLC).
A short walk-through of each stage in the RDLC –