Interpersonal communications are about communicating face to face with someone and exchanging thoughts, ideas, feelings, and meanings through both nonverbal and verbal communication. It’s about not just what you say, but how you say it as well as nonverbal expressions. Nonverbal communications can be far more telling sometimes than what is said verbally. People can use body language such as arm movements, posture. And micro facial expressions to communicate just as effectively as speech or giveaway the true meaning of their speech.
First, I think listening skills are the most important aspect in interpersonal communications. While interpersonal communications make up verbal communication, nonverbal communication, …show more content…
Or should I say one of my former girlfriends stopped by. I mentioned her in my oral presentation, I mentioned how I didn’t realize that while we have had an on and off again relationship for seven years, I didn’t realize I was having conflict with her until I did my research on conflicts. I have also mentioned her in a positive light in several of my other written assignments, one bing active listening communication skills. I realized through what I have learned about interpersonal communications that while she is a good person, we are never going to resolve our conflict now, or any other time in the …show more content…
She wore an outfit that I had commented on being very flattering on her some month ago. Her excuse to come by was to return a pan on her mother’s behalf I had made her family lasagna in months ago and completely forgot about them having. Both how she dressed, and her excuse to come by, spoke volumes about why she came by. She misses talking to me, she has no one else in her life of any intelligence who she can trust to talk too. I actively listened to her speak for a while being fully aware of the nonverbal ques she was using. I must say I would not have noticed any of this two months ago if it were not for your class. While not her intention, her behavior resolved my beliefs that we shouldn’t see each other.
Chapter one of “Gifts From the Heart” is about relationships, from casual, sustained, to Lifelong and the stages of a relationship; sparkle, conflict, to resolution. I have realized that unfortunately our relationship will not get past the conflict stage. Our relationship is one sided. While I support her, she gives me nothing mentally, I am not challenged by her. While she is smart, she has crazy political beliefs of conspiracies that I thought I could teach her were not true. But there is no teaching the conservative mind, it is something you are born