The Emotional Impact Relationships are a key factor to psychological or emotional health. Richard Dayringer writes, “Emotional difficulties are usually rooted in problems in interpersonal relationships. Conversely, people are mentally healthy to the extent to which they are aware of and able to handle their interpersonal relationships” (1998, 7). When human relationships go awry, an individual’s emotional response can vary extensively, all the way from uncooperative behavior to murder, as Americans