1 Introduction: Convergence of the Attribution and Accounts Concepts in the Study of Close Relationships -- 2 What Is a "Personal" Relationship? A Rhetorical-Responsive Account of "Unfinished Business" -- 3 Interactions of Process and Moderator Variables in Account Episodes -- 4 Autobiographical Accounts, Situational Roles, and Motivated Biases: When Stories Don't Match Up -- 5 The Role of Account-Making in the Growth and Deterioration of Close Relationships -- 6 Coping with Relational Dissolutions: Attributions, Account Credibility, and Plans for Resolving Conflicts -- 7 Accounting for Relationships: A Knowledge Structure Approach -- 8 Communication Problems in Committed Relationships: An Attributional Analysis -- 9 Attributions and Maritally Violent Men: The Role of Cognitions in Marital Violence -- 10 Attribution Processes in Victims of Marital Violence: Who Do Women Blame and Why? -- 11 Attribution and Emotion in Patients' Families -- 12 Attributions and Apologies in Letters of Complaint to Hospitals and Letters of Response -- 13 Accounts of Intimate Support Relationships in the Early Months of Mothering -- Commentaries -- 14 Richness and Rigor: Advancing the Study of Attributions and Accounts in Close Relationships -- 15 Toward a Deeper Understanding of Close Relationships -- 16 Attributions, Accounts, and Close Relationships: Close Calls and Relational Resolutions -- 17 A Meta-Account -- Author Index.