I'm here, you're here, why not?

I dated a girl over the summer, and i'm pretty sure it's safe to say that the entire basis for our relationship was the mere exposure effect. The mere exposure effect (Zajonc, 1968) implies that simply being around someone will eventually improve your opinions of them, so long as their initial impression was at least not terrible. This girl Victoria and I had met before during my senior year of high school when she was dating one of my good friends. She seemed cool enough, but all of our interactions were contingent on my being around my friend, and right around that time is where he and I had a bit of a falling out. However, this past summer she showed up to my friend's high school graduation, then started hanging out with my friends and I on a regular basis. Basically all i knew about her at that point was that she dated Cameron my senior year, but as we hung out more and more, one thing lead to another and we started dating. It worked fine over the summer, but basically as soon as we both went to out respective schools, it fell apart and we broke up. In retrospect, our breaking up had a lot to do with the fact that we weren't seeing each other basically every day. This has a lot of different effects on relationships, but in ours it took away the basis of the mere exposure effect. Exposure.

Zajonc, R. B. (1968). Attitudinal effects of mere exposure, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology Monograph Supplement, 9(2), 1-27.