# Retrieving Relationships

Relationships can be used in two ways.

The first is as a getter. Calling `user.getPosts()` will execute the relationship, cache the result, and return it.

```javascript
var posts = user.getPosts();
```

The second is as a relationship. Calling `user.posts()` returns a `Relationship` instance to retrieve the posts that can be further constrained. A `Relationship` is backed by qb as well, so feel free to call any qb method to further constrain the relationship.

```javascript
var newestPosts = user
    .posts()
    .orderBy( "publishedDate", "desc" )
    .get();
```


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