My Fatherhood Analysis

Goodnight stories, dancing while standing on top of his feet, eating food mom does not usually let you, making messes, and learning to fix things are all traditionally things done with a father figure. I did not experience this traditional sense of fatherhood I was never a Daddy’s girl, but my father was present. My father was not a bad guy, but he was the hard worker type. Therefore, we never truly bonded with his busy schedule. Then everything changed my parents got divorced and mom met someone new. My biological father unable to cope with everything just became absent and because I was young and never had a strong bond with my father what semblance of a relationship we had crumbled. My connotation of family became misconstrued because I did not really know where I …show more content…
Mom was definitely displaying some odd nonverbal passive behavior (Galvin, 2011). Finally I asked and she claimed one of her ex-boyfriends from high school worked at that store. I assumed he must be terrible or at least awkward guy for her to act this crazy. After no longer being able to avoid this man we went up and spoke with him. After this brief conversation I could not figure out why my mom had made such a big deal about this man. He was just some nice normal guy. Uncertainty Reduction is a theory described by Charles Berger and Richard Calbese to explain how strangers reduce uncertainty during initial reactions (Galvin, 2011, p.34). When I first met Dean I was uncertain about his character because of my mom’s behavior, but after having a conversation I quickly learned this was not an intimidating guy. Therefore, uncertainty reduction was just the beginning of a beautiful relationship all because I predicted incorrectly about Dean’s character. This is only the initiation of our relationship now moving into experimenting where our relationship truly began to develop (Galvin,