Why Is Interpersonal Communication Inevitable And Unrepeatable?

Interpersonal communication is inevitable, irreversible, and unrepeatable. I have had several miscommunications with my husband. It can be a simple miscommunication about picking up groceries or interpreting the text message wrong. Usually our communication is through text messages. I have noticed we use encoding in our conversations. We sometimes aren’t able to communicate over the phone or face-to-face. We both have to decode what the other is trying to say. I sent a message to my husband saying I would be back in a couple hours to please buy some groceries for dinner. I’m usually the one running around trying to get everything ready for dinner, but I needed him to help on that particular day because it was our son’s birthday.
I was running around all day buying balloons, cake, and gifts. Once I got home I see my husband had not gone to the grocery store. I was angry with him. He dint realize I was angry with him until he tried speaking to me. I ignored him. I used nonverbal communication to get my message across through him. He picked up on the silent treatment, walking away from him, and not looking at him. I was depending on him to get the rest of the ingredients that were missing at home. Once he noticed my body language and behavior towards him he asked what was wrong.
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Our culture is passed down through communication. We both saw and were repeatedly told by our parents or grandparents beliefs on how a household should look like. His grandparents and parents had raised him that the man does not have to move a muscle, but the woman should be able to multitask and handle every situation that comes along the way without disrupting the man. I was raised that in a marriage there is equal partnership both the man and woman have to help one another to get the task completed. As my husband and I were sharing our personal beliefs I brought upon him the idea that we could