Self-Disclosure, Gender, and Communication

Self-Disclosure, Gender, and Communication

After reading the article “Can we talk? Researcher talks about the role of communication in happy marriages” (Schoenberg, N.) I came to see things differently than I had seen before. Especially when it came to my past relations I have had. With know this information know about how to make my relation I’m in now I will be using it to make sure I can try and make sure my relation is better. "You can have a two-hour conversation and not talk about anything of substance or value or quality." (Schoenberg, N.) This is something I have gone through with some of my past relations, I have even been doing this in the relation I’m in now. It shows me some of the reason my fiancé and I do not feel like that we really have conation as we did when we first started our relationship five years ago. Yes we used to always talk about things when it came to family and friends and how we would like to see our self’s in the next few years. In the last few years all we talk about is normally about the bills and who is going to do this or that through the day.
With my fiancé being in Florida right now I can still change the way we talk to make things better for us; I know it will not be the same until we are able to talk person to person instead of over the phone either through a phone call or text message. I do feel making sure there is time set aside to talk to each other about things that really matter will change the way things are going along with the way we inter act with each other. I know that there have been many times we both have asked each other what is wrong are you made with me or did I do something wrong. I have found out why we have been doing so with this article. It’s based on our commination, also with the way we have been trying to show each other how we love and care. I felt like all I had to do is tell him I love you, and once in a while make him something he likes to eat. I know in some ways I’m doing right, the thing am I needed to do more than I have. I can...

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