I have chose to write about the interpersonal relationship I have with my boyfriend. I will discuss with you how are relationship got where it is today, and the challenges we have faced along the way. I will tell you a little bit about us and our relationship. We both communicate with each other in different ways, sometimes effective, sometimes not. The relationship with Jeffrey and I started over spring break last semester. I met him over at a friends house when I went back home during break. He was from the Hugoton Kansas area, and I was living in Amarillo, so it was nothing serious. It didn’t take long to figure out that we are both stubborn, hard headed, and always like to be right. After a couple weeks he started driving down to Amarillo
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I know he loves me because I can feel it everyday, and not just because he tells me. Somedays he will send me “you song for today”, or send me pressed flowers in the mail. He knows I love him, because I surprising mail him his favorite cereal, since he is unable to find it where he lives. The need we have for physical contact is met every two or three months, which I will admit isn’t often enough. Our relationship is a reward in itself. Just knowing that I have someone who loves me and cares for me is an incredible feeling. I miss him constantly, but at least I have someone to miss. The only demand in regards to our relationship is …show more content…
If I were the one about to do something, he doesn’t have to say anything for me to change my mind. Just the look on his face is enough for me to know it would bother him on some level. If the situation is reversed, which this has only happened once, it feels like nothing I say matters. Wilmot (DeVito, 2003) defines interpersonal conflict as a “disagreement between two connected persons” (p.268). By that definition, one could say there is a lot of conflict in our relationship, because we disagree quite a bit. Those disagreements however, are not over important topics, therefore they do not cause problems. We talk them out and usually find common ground. We both “ take an active role in you interpersonal conflicts and involve yourself actively” Wilmot (DeVito, 2003) (p.252). The times we are not able to find common ground, I am usually the one to accommodate by saying “your right”, and change the
I know he loves me because I can feel it everyday, and not just because he tells me. Somedays he will send me “you song for today”, or send me pressed flowers in the mail. He knows I love him, because I surprising mail him his favorite cereal, since he is unable to find it where he lives. The need we have for physical contact is met every two or three months, which I will admit isn’t often enough. Our relationship is a reward in itself. Just knowing that I have someone who loves me and cares for me is an incredible feeling. I miss him constantly, but at least I have someone to miss. The only demand in regards to our relationship is …show more content…
If I were the one about to do something, he doesn’t have to say anything for me to change my mind. Just the look on his face is enough for me to know it would bother him on some level. If the situation is reversed, which this has only happened once, it feels like nothing I say matters. Wilmot (DeVito, 2003) defines interpersonal conflict as a “disagreement between two connected persons” (p.268). By that definition, one could say there is a lot of conflict in our relationship, because we disagree quite a bit. Those disagreements however, are not over important topics, therefore they do not cause problems. We talk them out and usually find common ground. We both “ take an active role in you interpersonal conflicts and involve yourself actively” Wilmot (DeVito, 2003) (p.252). The times we are not able to find common ground, I am usually the one to accommodate by saying “your right”, and change the