Building Communication


    One of the most important things to have while in a strong relationship, not only romantic relationships

but even friendships, is communication. Without strong communication in our romantic relationships can

cause a lack of trust, a lack of support and most importantly a lack of love. But having strong

communication takes a lot of work, but it is possible and can make your relationships stronger but making

the effort to have strong communication. Some ways that someone can build a stronger communication

with someone can be by body language for example tone and expressing the way we feel about certain

situations and not letting their emotions build up inside of them until they are miserable. 

When we are communicating with someone no matter who it is depending on how a person says it

they can interpret it however they hear it. In my Family Relations class, when we talked about the topic of

communication my professor talked about how when we talk to other people how the other people hear

us is by 14% of the words that we say to other people. Then 35% of it is based on the tone and texture

of our voice and 51% of it is based upon body language. For example, when we have negative body

language towards the person that we are trying to communicate with it can build a wall between that

persons because they might know how to respond or how to make it worse for the other person. Same

goes for the tone of our voice; it makes it easier to tell how a person feels. For example, if you were to

ask someone a question and they respond with a happy upbeat tone it makes it easier to talk to that

person and to have a conversation with them. But when you are in the same situation, and they respond

with a most hostile tone it’s harder to communicate with that person because sometimes it can feel like

you are walking on eggshells when you are around them. When wanting to have strong communication

with an individual it is always important to be aware of our own communication and how we may look

when we respond and communicate to someone.

When communicating with someone it is also important to be able to tell the people around how we

feel and to not let all of our emotions get bottled up and destroy us. But only do we express how we feel

but it is also important to be able to show empathy for the people that express their emotions when they

confide in you or are vulnerable. Even though it is important to not become the therapist's friend it is an

important skill to learn when it comes to being a person people can be open with. When you are

building a strong relationship with someone it is important to be able to confide in each other on how

they feel. That you can be there for them and not be afraid to hold anything back. And when you have

that trust it makes it easier to tell the other person what is bothering you whether it is just in general or

something that the person is doing bothering you, so everyone has an understanding.

    Communication is a very important thing in all of our relationships. With stronger communication will

result in a stronger relationship. It is important to be able to not only know how to create a stronger

communication with someone in our life. But to also be willing to make an effort to make it stronger

because it isn’t easy.

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