Sandra L. Faulkner is professor of communication at Bowling Green State University where she writes, teaches, and researches about close relationships. Her interests include qualitative methodology, poetic inquiry, and the relationships among culture, identities, and sexualities in close relationships. Her research focuses on how individuals navigate gender and sexuality through interpersonal communication and personal narrative. She often uses poetry, creative nonfiction, and autoethnography to explore her own negotiation of identity as a parent, partner, and professor. She received the 2013 Knower Outstanding Article Award from the National Communication Association, the 2016 Norman K. Denzin Qualitative Research Award, and the 2020 Trujillo and Goodall "It’s a Way of Life Award" in Narrative Ethnography. https://www.sandrafaulkner.online/ https://bgsu.academia.edu/SandraFaulkner

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• Foreword: A Critical Need for Critical Case Studies in Interpersonal Communication Pedagogy by Jimmie ManningIntroduction by Sandra L. FaulknerChapter 1: What is a Relationship? Case 1: The ruminating of the Samoan Va (relationships in-between) & the musing and connecting of identity by Fetaui IosefoCase 2: Migration Patterns by Kimberly Dark Case 3: Wellspring by Sheila SquillanteCase 4: Death and the Childhood Imagination by Alana RittChapter 2: Health, Discourse, Dialectics, and DisclosureCase 5: Run for their Lives: A Call to Action to Address Black Infant and Maternal Mortality by Erin K. WillerCase 6: Primary Care by Mary E. WeemsCase 7: Letter to My 14-Year-Old Self by Walid Afifi, Rana M. Shubair, and Salsabeel HamdanCase 8: Cancer Triptych by Sandra L. FaulknerChapter 3: Families, Parenting, and Communication Case 9: Life Isn’t All Roses: The Struggles of Adoptive Parenting by Christy Mesaros-Winckles and Andrew WincklesCase 10: Formative Interactions and Reformative Patterns in Father-son Relationships and Masculinities by Dan S. StrasserCase 11: A Capitalist and a Christian by Laura StaffordCase 12: Healthy Happy Homes by Lindsey J. Thomas and Kristina M. Scharp Chapter 4: The Social Self: Class, Race, and Social ContextCase 13: Black Motherhood: Poems by Nicole Danielle MorrisCase 14: Class and Calamity: In Hindsight by Kate Magsamen-ConradCase 15: Class (Inter)Acting by Tasha R. DunnCase 16: You Talk Like A White Girl: Blackgirl Identity and Interpersonal Interracial Realities by Robin M. BoylornChapter 5: Race, Nationality, and Gendered Practices in Relationships Case 17: Tales of Dashing Sasquatch: Skirting Gender Hegemony by Manda V. HicksCase 18: Sticks and Stones: Dealing with Discrimination by Lisa K. HanasonoCase 19: How a board game prompted a conversation with my kids about what it means to be ‘American’ by Jenn McKeeCase 20: Stories of migration and identity from an undocumented citizen in the United States by Monica CornejoChapter 6: Relationship MaintenanceCase 21: Long-Term Love by Laura L. EllingsonCase 22: College students’ negotiations of work-life balance: Grasping it all in moments of turbulence by Katherine J. Denker and Kendra KnightCase 23: Dis/connection by Zhenyu Tian and Keith BerryCase 24: TEN: Marriage in 10 Scenes by Sandra L. FaulknerChapter 7: Sexualities and HeteropatriarchyCase 25: Feminist Killjoy, Childfree by Choice by Bernadette Marie CalafellCase 26: Does my beard make me look straight?—a series of messy strands by Lore/tta LeMaster Case 27: The Trials of Coming Out as Trans by Shalen LowellCase 28: Learning, Living, and Leaving Monogamy by Tony E. Adams and Dominic A. Walker-PecoraroChapter 8 The Dark SideCase 29: Bowing Out of Friendship by Julia Galbus KieselCase 30: That Baby Will Cost You: An Intended Ambivalent Pregnancy by Sandra L. FaulknerCase 31: The Four Ugliest Children by Camille-Yvette WelschCase 32: Twintimacy and Twinships by Jordan A. Allen and Nicole T. AllenIndex About the Authors

Sandra L. Faulkner is professor of communication at Bowling Green State University where she writes, teaches, and researches about close relationships. Her interests include qualitative methodology, poetic inquiry, and the relationships among culture, identities, and sexualities in close relationships. Her research focuses on how individuals navigate gender and sexuality through interpersonal communication and personal narrative. She often uses poetry, creative nonfiction, and autoethnography to explore her own negotiation of identity as a parent, partner, and professor. She received the 2013 Knower Outstanding Article Award from the National Communication Association, the 2016 Norman K. Denzin Qualitative Research Award, and the 2020 Trujillo and Goodall "It’s a Way of Life Award" in Narrative Ethnography. https://www.sandrafaulkner.online/ https://bgsu.academia.edu/SandraFaulkner

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• Foreword: A Critical Need for Critical Case Studies in Interpersonal Communication Pedagogy by Jimmie ManningIntroduction by Sandra L. FaulknerChapter 1: What is a Relationship? Case 1: The ruminating of the Samoan Va (relationships in-between) & the musing and connecting of identity by Fetaui IosefoCase 2: Migration Patterns by Kimberly Dark Case 3: Wellspring by Sheila SquillanteCase 4: Death and the Childhood Imagination by Alana RittChapter 2: Health, Discourse, Dialectics, and DisclosureCase 5: Run for their Lives: A Call to Action to Address Black Infant and Maternal Mortality by Erin K. WillerCase 6: Primary Care by Mary E. WeemsCase 7: Letter to My 14-Year-Old Self by Walid Afifi, Rana M. Shubair, and Salsabeel HamdanCase 8: Cancer Triptych by Sandra L. FaulknerChapter 3: Families, Parenting, and Communication Case 9: Life Isn’t All Roses: The Struggles of Adoptive Parenting by Christy Mesaros-Winckles and Andrew WincklesCase 10: Formative Interactions and Reformative Patterns in Father-son Relationships and Masculinities by Dan S. StrasserCase 11: A Capitalist and a Christian by Laura StaffordCase 12: Healthy Happy Homes by Lindsey J. Thomas and Kristina M. Scharp Chapter 4: The Social Self: Class, Race, and Social ContextCase 13: Black Motherhood: Poems by Nicole Danielle MorrisCase 14: Class and Calamity: In Hindsight by Kate Magsamen-ConradCase 15: Class (Inter)Acting by Tasha R. DunnCase 16: You Talk Like A White Girl: Blackgirl Identity and Interpersonal Interracial Realities by Robin M. BoylornChapter 5: Race, Nationality, and Gendered Practices in Relationships Case 17: Tales of Dashing Sasquatch: Skirting Gender Hegemony by Manda V. HicksCase 18: Sticks and Stones: Dealing with Discrimination by Lisa K. HanasonoCase 19: How a board game prompted a conversation with my kids about what it means to be ‘American’ by Jenn McKeeCase 20: Stories of migration and identity from an undocumented citizen in the United States by Monica CornejoChapter 6: Relationship MaintenanceCase 21: Long-Term Love by Laura L. EllingsonCase 22: College students’ negotiations of work-life balance: Grasping it all in moments of turbulence by Katherine J. Denker and Kendra KnightCase 23: Dis/connection by Zhenyu Tian and Keith BerryCase 24: TEN: Marriage in 10 Scenes by Sandra L. FaulknerChapter 7: Sexualities and HeteropatriarchyCase 25: Feminist Killjoy, Childfree by Choice by Bernadette Marie CalafellCase 26: Does my beard make me look straight?—a series of messy strands by Lore/tta LeMaster Case 27: The Trials of Coming Out as Trans by Shalen LowellCase 28: Learning, Living, and Leaving Monogamy by Tony E. Adams and Dominic A. Walker-PecoraroChapter 8 The Dark SideCase 29: Bowing Out of Friendship by Julia Galbus KieselCase 30: That Baby Will Cost You: An Intended Ambivalent Pregnancy by Sandra L. FaulknerCase 31: The Four Ugliest Children by Camille-Yvette WelschCase 32: Twintimacy and Twinships by Jordan A. Allen and Nicole T. AllenIndex About the Authors

Sandra L. Faulkner is professor of communication at Bowling Green State University where she writes, teaches, and researches about close relationships. Her interests include qualitative methodology, poetic inquiry, and the relationships among culture, identities, and sexualities in close relationships. Her research focuses on how individuals navigate gender and sexuality through interpersonal communication and personal narrative. She often uses poetry, creative nonfiction, and autoethnography to explore her own negotiation of identity as a parent, partner, and professor. She received the 2013 Knower Outstanding Article Award from the National Communication Association, the 2016 Norman K. Denzin Qualitative Research Award, and the 2020 Trujillo and Goodall "It’s a Way of Life Award" in Narrative Ethnography. https://www.sandrafaulkner.online/ https://bgsu.academia.edu/SandraFaulkner

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• Foreword: A Critical Need for Critical Case Studies in Interpersonal Communication Pedagogy by Jimmie ManningIntroduction by Sandra L. FaulknerChapter 1: What is a Relationship? Case 1: The ruminating of the Samoan Va (relationships in-between) & the musing and connecting of identity by Fetaui IosefoCase 2: Migration Patterns by Kimberly Dark Case 3: Wellspring by Sheila SquillanteCase 4: Death and the Childhood Imagination by Alana RittChapter 2: Health, Discourse, Dialectics, and DisclosureCase 5: Run for their Lives: A Call to Action to Address Black Infant and Maternal Mortality by Erin K. WillerCase 6: Primary Care by Mary E. WeemsCase 7: Letter to My 14-Year-Old Self by Walid Afifi, Rana M. Shubair, and Salsabeel HamdanCase 8: Cancer Triptych by Sandra L. FaulknerChapter 3: Families, Parenting, and Communication Case 9: Life Isn’t All Roses: The Struggles of Adoptive Parenting by Christy Mesaros-Winckles and Andrew WincklesCase 10: Formative Interactions and Reformative Patterns in Father-son Relationships and Masculinities by Dan S. StrasserCase 11: A Capitalist and a Christian by Laura StaffordCase 12: Healthy Happy Homes by Lindsey J. Thomas and Kristina M. Scharp Chapter 4: The Social Self: Class, Race, and Social ContextCase 13: Black Motherhood: Poems by Nicole Danielle MorrisCase 14: Class and Calamity: In Hindsight by Kate Magsamen-ConradCase 15: Class (Inter)Acting by Tasha R. DunnCase 16: You Talk Like A White Girl: Blackgirl Identity and Interpersonal Interracial Realities by Robin M. BoylornChapter 5: Race, Nationality, and Gendered Practices in Relationships Case 17: Tales of Dashing Sasquatch: Skirting Gender Hegemony by Manda V. HicksCase 18: Sticks and Stones: Dealing with Discrimination by Lisa K. HanasonoCase 19: How a board game prompted a conversation with my kids about what it means to be ‘American’ by Jenn McKeeCase 20: Stories of migration and identity from an undocumented citizen in the United States by Monica CornejoChapter 6: Relationship MaintenanceCase 21: Long-Term Love by Laura L. EllingsonCase 22: College students’ negotiations of work-life balance: Grasping it all in moments of turbulence by Katherine J. Denker and Kendra KnightCase 23: Dis/connection by Zhenyu Tian and Keith BerryCase 24: TEN: Marriage in 10 Scenes by Sandra L. FaulknerChapter 7: Sexualities and HeteropatriarchyCase 25: Feminist Killjoy, Childfree by Choice by Bernadette Marie CalafellCase 26: Does my beard make me look straight?—a series of messy strands by Lore/tta LeMaster Case 27: The Trials of Coming Out as Trans by Shalen LowellCase 28: Learning, Living, and Leaving Monogamy by Tony E. Adams and Dominic A. Walker-PecoraroChapter 8 The Dark SideCase 29: Bowing Out of Friendship by Julia Galbus KieselCase 30: That Baby Will Cost You: An Intended Ambivalent Pregnancy by Sandra L. FaulknerCase 31: The Four Ugliest Children by Camille-Yvette WelschCase 32: Twintimacy and Twinships by Jordan A. Allen and Nicole T. AllenIndex About the Authors