the things that are important to you at the beginning of your relationship, you will find yourself starting to resent the other person. Most people will just go along with what the other person wants to do or says until all at once they just explode. Then it is usually too late, and the words cannot be taken back. If you refuse to communicate or just keep quiet about what is bothering you, it will definitely hurt your lasting relationship. Playing games with each other is also not the way to go.
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Masking Poor Communication The article titled ‘Close Relationships Sometimes Mask Poor Communication’ in the Health Day News of January 24th 2011, the concept of closeness-communication bias got brought to light. This is the phenomenon whereby, an individual assumes that the friend or other close person understands something they are saying without giving them all the details. They assume that they already know what they mean in their communication, and hence there is an understanding of unsophisticated
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reactivity of mother’s to their infants. They also examined the interaction of parental receptiveness and infant temperament in the processing of facial emotions. The participants in this study were 77 7-month-old infants, who were full term and of healthy birth weight, and their
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Roderick’s Intimate and Platonic Relationships Due to continuous imprinting of emotional, physical and sexual abuse, Roderick finds interacting with others as a challenge. For that reason, it appears that Roderick is prone to sabotaging any type of intimate and/or platonic relationship before it could develop into a possible healthy one. This is why it seems as if he is encountering a conflict within his personality. Roderick’s conflicting personality described within the psychoanalytic model According
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early and middle adulthood these changes are the most apparent. These changes can affect our relationships, the roles we play, and our later life. The way that people adjust to the changes of growing older and how this affects the rest of their life is what we will examine here. Social and Intimate Relationships During early and middle adulthood the way people view and interact within their relationships will be affected by a variety of factors. During middle to late adulthood, people will enter
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especially in an intimate relationship where a couple is dating or married. The benefits of self-disclosure are great, because both parties begin and continue to understand each other and know things about each other that other people would not necessarily understand very quickly. Becoming comfortable enough with one’s own emotions and feelings, and being confident enough to communicate them is a great thing when it pertains to couples elevating and prospering in their relationships. To have meaningful
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environment in every aspect. It is non-bias to race, religion, culture gender or age. The topic that will be discussed is the confusing relationship that you have with your ex-boyfriend filled with mixed signals and uneasy emotions. Most women can relate to this topic. Unless you are one of those women who tend to have sour endings to almost every relationship out there then you would probably not understand this article at all. Yes, it does take an enormous amount of energy to be able to forgive
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as the outdated furniture, leaking windows and pink walls. Jacobs took the problem at hand and came up with solutions such as community involvement and building community relationships. Jacobs used slogans such as “work out at our hospital so you can stay out of our hospital” (Hughes et.al, 2012), which encouraged a healthy lifestyle for the community as well as the employees. Jacobs interviewed employees to find out firsthand what they wanted for the Windber community and the medical center (Hughes
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participants drew benefits from either group. Each meeting was structured differently. Both started with explaining some basic principles about the group, but from there, the meetings differed. SMART recovery was semi-structured and didactic. A tool for a healthy life was presented and explained, and then participants discussed how they might incorporate it into their lives. AA focused on
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Attachment Style and Relationships Kathy Schwab PSY/220 July 29, 2012 Edward Billingslea Attachment Style and Relationships Part 1 Robert Sternberg’s triangular theory of love is based on three dimensions: passion, intimacy, and commitment. In Sternberg’s model passion, intimacy, and commitment each represent one side of a triangle describing the love shared by two people. Passion means strong emotion, excitement, and physiological arousal, often tied to sexual desire and attraction
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