Masking Poor Communication 1
Masking Poor Communication
Heather Ruggles
COM200: Interpersonal Communication
Instructor: Michael Gavino
July 29, 2013
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Masking Poor Communication
In the article “Close Relationships Sometimes Mask Poor Communication”, it talks about the communication between married couples and how the spouses can communicate better with each other. My fiancé and I don’t communicate very well. We have been together for six years, and we still have problems commutating. So when we do sit and talk, it just ends up being a fight. For me the article was on point and eye opener. In reading the article it stated that “In fact, spouses sometimes communicate with each other no better than strangers do, a new study suggest“. (U.S. News & World Report. Washington: Jan 2011. p. 1 ). In my own personal option I do think that some couples communicate better with strangers than they do each other.
I feel that not all couples can communicate that well, I know we don’t but some may be able to do that and then others may not. I sometimes think that my fiancé understands me, but he never does. I have this problem with other people too. Such as my mother and brother it always ends in fights or arguments. For example, my daughter’s birthday is coming up soon and we went to get her gifts, we got in a fight because he wanted to buy her a mini pocket rocket bike. I kept telling him she would hurt herself, so it was a big fight in the store. I always think that my mother understands me also, but that always turns around on me no matter what. I raise my daughter the way I want and she tells me to do it her way. That gets us fighting.
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