Interpersonal Communication
COMMUNICATING AS A COUPLE
13 August 2012
Communicating within a relationship can be complex, requiring both parties to work hard and diligently to be effective communicators with the other in the relationship through trial, error, and some helpful advice. Interpersonal communication can assist you as couples to grow stronger and develop emotional support systems for one another as your relationship continues to grow over time. Understanding how you can interact in a manner that is mutually supporting and generates reactions that you want to occur in order to keep the other partner happy and affirm the information that you are trying to give to each other.
You must be able to identify the barriers to effective interpersonal interactions. Through the identification of these barriers, couples can keep the channels of communication open between one another and continue to work through problems before the develop into something that will cause the relationship to fail. Understanding how to identify the barriers are the most important factors to creating interpersonal interactions that will allow the relationship to continue to grow through the course of a lifetime. Encouraging one another as you discover that there is a barrier that is affecting the communication process will assist in the growth of the relationship to create a positive environment for interaction and emotional growth. Understanding one another while communicating is important and understand how you are not communicating is even more important to the communication process between each other as well. Silencing or refusing to communicate between one another can create areas of discomfort between the two in the communication process. By not engaging in the communication process you are telling your partner that the information they are sharing with you is not important to you or that you do not care what they are saying. In doing this you can create long term problems that can aggravate
13 August 2012
Communicating within a relationship can be complex, requiring both parties to work hard and diligently to be effective communicators with the other in the relationship through trial, error, and some helpful advice. Interpersonal communication can assist you as couples to grow stronger and develop emotional support systems for one another as your relationship continues to grow over time. Understanding how you can interact in a manner that is mutually supporting and generates reactions that you want to occur in order to keep the other partner happy and affirm the information that you are trying to give to each other.
You must be able to identify the barriers to effective interpersonal interactions. Through the identification of these barriers, couples can keep the channels of communication open between one another and continue to work through problems before the develop into something that will cause the relationship to fail. Understanding how to identify the barriers are the most important factors to creating interpersonal interactions that will allow the relationship to continue to grow through the course of a lifetime. Encouraging one another as you discover that there is a barrier that is affecting the communication process will assist in the growth of the relationship to create a positive environment for interaction and emotional growth. Understanding one another while communicating is important and understand how you are not communicating is even more important to the communication process between each other as well. Silencing or refusing to communicate between one another can create areas of discomfort between the two in the communication process. By not engaging in the communication process you are telling your partner that the information they are sharing with you is not important to you or that you do not care what they are saying. In doing this you can create long term problems that can aggravate
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