Ten Minutes of Communication
Cynthia O’Brien
COM200 Interpersonal Communication (ACM1546D)
Instructor: Reginald Doctor
December 6, 2015

At the University of Michigan, a researcher named Terry Orbuch studied hundreds of married couples over a twenty-year span. In the article Can we talk? Orbuch explains the role of communication and how this relates to having a happy marriage. The article will explain her findings to strengthen relationships. Moreover, then discuss our relationship experiences with self-disclosure how we may agree with it being satisfying in a relationship or how it may not be. Also, gender differences will be discussed to what type of similarities have been experienced. Some individuals have been at a restaurant or couples on a date that comment on that couple that has been sitting in silence. Sometimes you might independently think are they uninterested irritated, angry or all of the above. This article “can we talk” explains that a British dating site recently set off a comprehensive discussion claiming that a couple married for fifty years will be communicative to each other only three minutes an hour while having an evening meal (Schoenberg, 2011). Although Orbuch a relationship expert sees this as not a concern as she goes on to explain it is not about magnitude, it is the reliable superiority communication Terry Orbuch states, “you can have a two-hour conversation and not talk about anything of substance or value or quality (Schoenberg, 2011). There are many questions how to nurture and maintain the kind of communication that is knotted to long-term marriages (Schoenberg, 2011). When couples are discussing daily routines as of who will do what and when many of these couples would say they are communicating well with their partner. Moreover, some of the conversations could take one hour of communication if