Importance Of Communication In Relationships

Communication and Dating Relationships

Communication is often a very difficult skill for most people to acquire. It has been proven countless amounts of times how lack of understanding communication in relationships have caused the relationship to fail. These relationships often do not fail, because of any other valid reason other than lack of the proper understanding of communication. Without proper understanding of communication, dating relationships do not have a real chance of succeeding in a proper and healthy way for both people. In any dating relationship, people need to get a full understanding of the Social Science and Interpretive approaches of communication, in order to better the relationship. The first approach a person in a …show more content…
This type of interaction is where one of the people in the relationship is constantly finding fault, criticizing, and attempting to change the other partner. The partner getting criticized, reacts were defensively and this is a fault that often puts an end to a relationship. Hypothetically speaking, imagine you have been dating your girlfriend or boyfriend for a few months now. You are officially past the “cupcake” or “honeymoon” stage of the relationship, and you are now settled in your relationship. After a while, every little thing you do, your partner seems to find fault in, so they constantly criticize you. All of a sudden they want you to change your entire identity, just to appease to them. Of course, when constantly, being downed, you choose to retaliate. Your retaliation can be emotional, mental, or even physical, either way, this puts a negative cloud on the entire relationship. This tends to become a problem with communicating in relationships, because one person wants basically be in charge and dictate the relationship and the other person rather than trying to search for and understand a way to deal with this part of the …show more content…
A lot of times, all people need is to understand each other, which is why I feel as though looking at communication through the interpretive approach would be the most successful in dating relationships. A lot of relationships with great potential end because of lack of communication and understanding. Earlier, I talked about how one of my ex-boyfriends was really adamant about believing that I did not care about the relationship, when in all actuality, he just did not understand how I carried myself or where I was coming from on solving issues. Also, I must take fault, because I did not take much time to understand his feelings. As I said, he was much more sensitive than I was, and I never really could figure out how to deal with it, so maybe that was why, to him, I always seemed distant and withdrawn, when really I just did not fully understand how to communicate with him