Communication In Intimate Relationships

Communication In Intimate RelationshipsWhat makes relationships successful? What kind of process do we go done to create an intimate relationship? What are some of the problems we encounter during them and how should we go ab expose solving those issues? The questions above are some of the subjects I am issue to tackle in this paper. Relationships can be precise rewarding if the good outweighs the bad. The success in an intimate relationship depends highly upon effective communication. on that point is non only one specific way for checkmates to communicate, because distributively relationship is dissimilar. It is historic to come good forms of communication to improve the quality our relationships.Date night is the moving-picture show I chose to compare my subject to a movie. In this movie, a couple is havingAfter being in a relationship for three years, I opinion as though my relationship with my boyfriend is fairly successful. What makes a relationship successful? In m y opinion, the following are in all-important(a) qualities of an intimate relationship Friendship, love, respect, com fad, and passion among others. Friendship is a good basis for any relationship. I dont believe a couple has to start from friendship, but from what I have seen, it is important for a friendship to develop. While spending a group of time together, it is important to have similar likes and interests, as friends do, to keep the fire going. Love is an obvious immensity to an intimate relationship, because it is needed to endure the hard times of a relationship, as well as the easy times. Compassion is necessary when a person in a relationship is having a hard time and needs support it is very important for a couple to support for each one other. Respect is very important to me, because I expect a mutual respect between my boyfriend and I to keep our boundaries set, and to keep us both happy. Our thoughts and opinions are important to each other. each relationship h as its own priorities in which different values are more important, as Anderson explains in more complex terms ain predispositions of one person will interact with the intimacy displays of another to produce unique individual valences of the intimacy displays of their partner (52).The process to form a rigid bond in a relationship takes a good amount of time. They differ couple to couple and take the different steps at different speeds. Floyd lists Mark Knapps model of relationship development as the following signizing stage, experimenting stage, intensify stage, integrating stage, and bonding stage. The initializing stage is meeting for the first time (342-345). After the initial meeting comes the experimenting stage, which is where two people get to know each other through conversation (such as figuring out what kind of music, movies, and activities someone likes.) adjacent is the intensifying stage, which is when two people go from just having occasional conversations, to b eing closer friends. The intensifying stage whitethorn also include hanging out in groups of friends or only with each other. The integrating stage is when other people start to notice your relationship and that commitment has developed. The last stage is bondage, which is when a relationship is announced to everyone, and everyone acknowledges the two as a couple.My last experience with the model of relationship development was quick. I met my boyfriend and four days later, we started dating. We got to know each other quickly, because we spent a lot of the summer together, directly after meeting, and we had many common interests. The experimenting stage occurred quickly, and we became closer friends in our quickly started relationship. The intensifying and integrating stage came pretty much at the same time. Everyone knew that we liked each other and were in a relationship almost right away. thrall for us was very natural and everyone accepted us as a couple, and still does.What ar e some ways to improve our relationships? Research says that for a solid relationship, there should be five positive behaviors for every one prejudicial and that unsatisfying relationships have only one positive behavior for every negative (Floyd.) In my personal relationship, my time together with my boyfriend is focused on forming at least five of those positive behaviors. Most days, we have many more than five positive behaviors for every one negative behavior, and I believe that does directly correlate with happiness in our relationship. Sorgen, on her WebMD feature says Its the rare couple that doesnt, sooner or later, run into a few bumps in the road. According to Sorgen, to improve communication, couples should do the following make time, set up rules, listen to each other, and make sure to argue in private if you cant keep your voice down. I feel like my relationship follows these guidelines. We make sure no matter how busy we are, we find time to spend together, and chew up subjects out, if we need to. If we do get into arguments, we have rules, so we dont become too mean. We also show our best to listen to each other whether we disagree or not, and we definitely dont make a scene in public. Personally, being sensitive to anothers emotions and feelings is important to do that is a problem I have in my relationship. When he doesnt agree with what I am saying, he becomes rude. I am an emotional girl, and my feelings are appal easily and he knows what to say to get me to stop talking. It would help us a lot if he would calm down when I get emotional, and talk calmly instead of getting angry. This would prevent us from saying words we dont mean. Sometimes, when I am emotional for a serious reason, he fails to take my emotions seriously, and says something to fray me more. Why do we become emotional when we do? The most common way in which emotions occur is when we sense, rightly or wrongly, that something that seriously affects our welfare, for bett er or worse, is happening or about to happen.. (Ekman 19.) Although my boyfriend may be somewhat emotionally insensitive, he does apologize afterwards if he hurts my feelings, which means a lot to me.Compromise is important in relationships also. It can never just be about one person, or it is a one-road relationship that is bound to fail. According to Floyd, its important to emphasize excitement and positivity, handle conflict constructively, have realistic expectations, and manage dialectical tensions (362-367.) For my boyfriend and I, we try to be spontaneous and do things out of the ordinary bicycle on a regular basis that emphasizes excitement. Just like in Date Night, when Phil and Claire Foster have problems because of having the same every day routine, romantic relationships may have problems when things are the same every single day. When they are chased and almost killed after being mistaked for thieves when they took another couples reservations at a restaurant. After all the excitement of being chased and almost killed, their relationship was much better because they appreciated each other much more after all the excitement. A change in a mundane schedule sometimes can help to get away from relationship problems. We also try to thank each other for things that we do just to make each other happy, so that both of us know we appreciate what we do for one another that emphasizes positivity. manipulation conflict constructively is the most important, because there is conflict in every relationship that I have seen and if conflict isnt handled constructively, it could obviously lead to an unhealthy relationship. living expectations help to keep order in a relationship. You cant expect a person to completely drop his/her life to be with another person. There has to be balance in the relationship for it to be fair. Managing dialectical tension is dealing with two opposite needs (Floyd 366). Another way to help a relationship is to accept the person for who they are and not to try to change who they are. You should love a person for who he/she is, and if you cant accept that person for who he/she is, you shouldnt be in a relationship with him/her (Sorgen).In this paper, I explained what makes a relationship successful, and what can be done to make a relationship better. Every couples relationship is different and there is not one way to go about handling a relationship, or its problems. Make sure you love, respect, and show thrill for the person you love, and try to understand each others opinions and beliefs, even if you dont exactly agree with your significant other. Work CitedAnderson, Peter A., et al. Progress In Communication Sciences Volume XIV.Stamford Ablex, 1998. Print.Elkman, Paul. Emotions Revealed Recognizing Faces and Feelings to mendCommunication. New York Henry Holt, 2003. PrintFloyd, Kory . Interpersonal Communication The Whole Story. New York, McGrawHill, 2009. Print.Levy, Shawn. 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