"negotiate relationship" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It means to discuss and work out the details or terms of a relationship. Example: "The couple sat down to negotiate their new relationship and set boundaries that would work for both of them."
The discovery and sorting of information about others, and the use of it to negotiate relationships is paramount to her games.
I recently spoke to Kirschenbaum about this mysterious act, its past, and how we use it to define and negotiate relationships.
Also Richie and Connie – I'm sure it happens in the UK – young people are really demonised in the Australian media, but I find that they negotiate relationships now in a way that I find really admirable.
Some people with HIV choose to abstain from sex rather than negotiate relationships, yet when they attend blood tests they are routinely asked how many sexual partners they have had.
During winter people of higher status rarely worked at day-to-day activities (leaving that to slaves), instead using the time to create two- and three-dimensional art and conduct potlatches, dances, and sacred ceremonies that brought people together to socialize, trade, and negotiate relationships within and between communities.
"Consensual non-monogamy gives me the freedom to involve people in my life on my own terms, and to negotiate relationships individually and contextually without having to follow a social script.
The termination of paramountcy would have in principle meant that all rights that flowed from the states' relationship with the British crown would return to them, leaving them free to negotiate relationships with the new states of India and Pakistan "on a basis of complete freedom".
There appeared to be few opportunities for the nurses in this study to negotiate relationships but they were eager to do so.
"Because of their lack of social and economic power, many women and girls are unable to negotiate relationships based on abstinence, faithfulness and use of condoms.
Our findings focus on how the facilitators understand and enact their role in the community setting, how they negotiate relationships and health issues with peer groups, and the influence of credibility.
