Where Did I Go Wrong
Have you ever had a miscommunication with someone close to you simply because you assumed they understood you? If that question was asked of anyone, the answer would very well be, yes, I have. It happens to the best of us and sometimes on a daily basis. As stated in the article from U.S. News and World Report’s called “Close Relationships Sometimes Mask Poor Communication”, it stated “For many people, their communication skills with loved ones are not as strong as they may think.” (U.S. News and World Report, 2011) Whether it is husband and wife or parent and child or even between co-workers, if you both don’t take the time to really listen then there will be some kind of miscommunication going on. So where did I go wrong …show more content…
In being a better interpersonal communicator, I needed to listen to what my daughter was really saying instead of assuming what I thought she was saying. Not only not picking up on the tone of her voice and her actions prevented me from seeing that I was not really understanding what she was truly saying to me. It would have also helped us both if she had just come out and stated that she was moving out and going to a place that would be helping her on a twenty-four hour basis would have helped also. Being rushed through a conversation can also lead to miscommunication on both parties involved in that conversation. As stated by J. L. Bevan and K. Sole (2014) in their book: “Your interpretation of situations, as well as the messages that you use to describe them, can affect your approach to particular situations and, subsequently, your behavior in these situations.” (Bevan & Sole, 2014) Due to the situations and the stress my daughter and I was under, she did not really communicate with me on what was really going on in her life and what she was doing to fix the problems that she was
Have you ever had a miscommunication with someone close to you simply because you assumed they understood you? If that question was asked of anyone, the answer would very well be, yes, I have. It happens to the best of us and sometimes on a daily basis. As stated in the article from U.S. News and World Report’s called “Close Relationships Sometimes Mask Poor Communication”, it stated “For many people, their communication skills with loved ones are not as strong as they may think.” (U.S. News and World Report, 2011) Whether it is husband and wife or parent and child or even between co-workers, if you both don’t take the time to really listen then there will be some kind of miscommunication going on. So where did I go wrong …show more content…
In being a better interpersonal communicator, I needed to listen to what my daughter was really saying instead of assuming what I thought she was saying. Not only not picking up on the tone of her voice and her actions prevented me from seeing that I was not really understanding what she was truly saying to me. It would have also helped us both if she had just come out and stated that she was moving out and going to a place that would be helping her on a twenty-four hour basis would have helped also. Being rushed through a conversation can also lead to miscommunication on both parties involved in that conversation. As stated by J. L. Bevan and K. Sole (2014) in their book: “Your interpretation of situations, as well as the messages that you use to describe them, can affect your approach to particular situations and, subsequently, your behavior in these situations.” (Bevan & Sole, 2014) Due to the situations and the stress my daughter and I was under, she did not really communicate with me on what was really going on in her life and what she was doing to fix the problems that she was