Can We Talk

CAN WE TALK? RESEARCHER TALKS ABOUT THE ROLE OF COMMUNICATION IN HAPPY MARRIAGES JOSEPH butler COM 200 INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION PAUL HUBBLE September 11, 2012 Yes I can relate to the article on the importance of self- disclosure in relationships, without revealing this cranky information about whizzs inner desires or should I say ones personal feelings there will be restrain knowledge of that persons private feelings in the relationship.Terri Orbuch, a research scientist at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan wrote In 1987, a review in the journal of sex and Marital Therapy found that higher rates of self- disclosure were tied with higher rates of marital satisfaction. Expression of retire and support was also linked to happy marriages. Tribune News Service Washington 17Jan 2011. My spouse had this very hard way of expressing her inner feelings to me. We lived each day wandering or trying to figure out what to say to one another at times.Also we wo uld live and sleep together as strangers without knowing what or if a hassle exist in the relationship. It is hard to live with someone and not know that person in the relationship, intimately or sexually. Yes, I agree that self- disclosure is consequential to satisfaction in relationship. Yes, there are certain similarities in gender concerning the role played by each in a relationship. Terri Orbuch who wrote Affective certificationBasically, behavior that makes your partner feel loved, cared for or specialplays a role in happy marriages and that men need it more than women. Tribune News Service Washington 17 Jan 2011.Doris Wild Helmering, apt Marriages, part two wrote People who have good marriages are not critical of each other. The spouses realize that their partners have flaws and no one is perfect. When they see shortcomings in their spouse, they smile and think, So what, or Who cares? With flaws that they are not able to easily discount, they ask their spouse for help. St. Louis,Mo. 02 Oct. My spouse and I find a common ground, if one think there is a problem let the other know so that we do not have to live with the problem. No, I do not think I fit into the generalization regarding ender. I live open minded and flexible in my relationship with a spouse.Reference Doris, W. H. (1995, Oct 02), Happy Marriages, part- two. St. Louis Post- Dispatch (pre- 1997 Full text), pp. 04-04, E. Retrieved from http//search. proquest. com/docview/305087665? accountid=32521Schoen Shoenberg, N. (2011Jan 17), Can We Talk? Researcher talks about the role of communication in happy marriages. McClatchy Tribune News Service,pp. n/a. Retrieved from http//search. proquest. com/docview/840600645? accountid=32521Schoen