From child to parent communication some of the avoided topics are: sex, negative things that happened to them, and failures. Some avoided topics from parent to child are: health, finances, and conflicts with spouse. These topics are avoided because children and parents both want to protect the relationship they have with each other, also because they want to have some sort of privacy in their own situations. Sex is an avoided topic between parents and children because most children do not want to be judged or by their parent. They do not want to be judged because they want to be comfortable with themselves and the decisions that they have made. Most children also do not like to talk to their parents about negative things that happened to them because they feel it might ruin their relationship that they have with each other and change the level of closeness. Failures are not brought up between children and parents that much either because children believe that the parents will punish them for not accomplishing a goal the way the parents wanted them to. Parents avoid discussing health, finances, and conflicts with their spouse to children. Parents avoid talking about health because they feel as though it might worry the child of their parent’s wellbeing. …show more content…
Costs are seen as the negatives in the relationship. They are what makes the relationship unwanted. Rewards are what the people in the relationship look forward to. In most relationships, if there are more costs than rewards, that’s when people start to separate themselves from the other person they are in an affiliation with. For example, displaying assurance to an intimate partner can benefit your relationship by building trust and loyalty. Also, by injecting jealousy into a relationship can make it uncomfortable and