Attraction and Relationships
Kaitlyn Carty
9 October 2013
Professor Haun
COMM 1302
Section #12566
KaitlynMCarty@Gmail.com
Relationships Throughout life, we maintain all types of relationships and on all levels. The relationships can be with our spouses, family members, friends, neighbors, and religious affiliations and even our colleagues. Within all of these relationships, communication is the key element in maintaining a successful relationship. Communication allows the process by which senders and receivers exchange messages in a given context. The type of relationship that will be discussed here is the relationship between a man and a woman. There are certain concepts that definitely come to play with this type of relationship, and without them there would definitely be a strain in communication. Mary and Gregg are a couple that went through different aspects of communication which resulted in creating a stronger bond. In this paper, I will be discussing how Mary and Gregg’s communication methods through their relationship to help them build a strong relationship and be together fifteen years later. Mary and Gregg have been married for ten years although they knew each other for fifteen years. At thirty-two years of age, Gregg is a successful investment banker on Wall Street. Thirty year old Mary is a stay at home mother with 3 children. Mary and Gregg did not always have the perfect relationship. They both went through some difficult moments before getting to the point that they are at now (1-Homeostasis, 2-Balanced). Mary met Gregg at Howard University were they were both students. Before Mary met Gregg, she had heard that he was somewhat of a local celebrity on campus. He was well known for his good looks and charms and had a way with words. Not too many people knew a whole lot of personal things about Gregg, but, that only added to the attraction people felt when they finally got the chance to speak with him (3-Mystification). Gregg and Mary
9 October 2013
Professor Haun
COMM 1302
Section #12566
KaitlynMCarty@Gmail.com
Relationships Throughout life, we maintain all types of relationships and on all levels. The relationships can be with our spouses, family members, friends, neighbors, and religious affiliations and even our colleagues. Within all of these relationships, communication is the key element in maintaining a successful relationship. Communication allows the process by which senders and receivers exchange messages in a given context. The type of relationship that will be discussed here is the relationship between a man and a woman. There are certain concepts that definitely come to play with this type of relationship, and without them there would definitely be a strain in communication. Mary and Gregg are a couple that went through different aspects of communication which resulted in creating a stronger bond. In this paper, I will be discussing how Mary and Gregg’s communication methods through their relationship to help them build a strong relationship and be together fifteen years later. Mary and Gregg have been married for ten years although they knew each other for fifteen years. At thirty-two years of age, Gregg is a successful investment banker on Wall Street. Thirty year old Mary is a stay at home mother with 3 children. Mary and Gregg did not always have the perfect relationship. They both went through some difficult moments before getting to the point that they are at now (1-Homeostasis, 2-Balanced). Mary met Gregg at Howard University were they were both students. Before Mary met Gregg, she had heard that he was somewhat of a local celebrity on campus. He was well known for his good looks and charms and had a way with words. Not too many people knew a whole lot of personal things about Gregg, but, that only added to the attraction people felt when they finally got the chance to speak with him (3-Mystification). Gregg and Mary