Effects Of Self Disclosure In Family Relationships

Growing Intimacy through Self-Disclosure and Sexuality

Introduction Intimacy in itself can be tricky to define. It encompasses a handful of emotions that we share with our family both psychically and emotionally. Many relationships that we have in our lives require moderate levels of dedication and self -disclosure but family relationships are different in that it requires an extra step of communicating each other’s feelings, needs, and goals. It is important to for parents to understand that in order for intimacy to grow between them and their children, self-disclosure is necessary.
Self-Disclosure
In order for intimacy to form within parent-child relationships, self-closure is incredibly important. It is the building block that allows

These conflicts come up from a wide variety of different issues and each family has their own unique way of solving them. When people think of family conflict, its usually associated with a negative family memory or experience that families try to dismiss and often pretend like they never happened. However, conflicts are unavoidable no matter how hard a family tries to dodge them. In fact, purely avoiding conflict in the long wrong often can lead to negative long-term consequences among the family (Gottman and Krokoff, 1990).
What Is Conflict?
Conflict is a natural. People go through their day-to-day life and meet those who they find agreeable and then there are those who they share conflicting views with. In order for a conflict to exist and be interpersonal, the conflict must have three parts to it. First, the conflict must be an expressed struggle, or that other opposing parties are aware of it. Next, conflict groups must be interdependent. This means that interpersonal conflict doesn’t exist if the conflicts outcome does not affect other members within the system. The last requirement for conflict is the perception that the individual is in the right about the concern of subject (Hocker and Wilmot,

First, there is covert destructive conflict. Covert destructive conflict is more ambiguous and not active. An example of this is when parents ground their son for staying out to late and in response the teenager “accidently” leaves the freezer door open. Although this type of conflict is not very aggressive and may not sound too harmful, this conflict does not allow for family members to communicate their problems with one another and as a result, they miss out on the support that they could otherwise receive within the family. Overt Destructive Conflict encapsulates the typical very aggressive behavior that one would expect in an overt destructive conflict. This type of conflict includes acts ranging from arguing verbally to physical domestic abuse. Children who grow up in these types of abusive homes are highly more likely to be abusive themselves, believing that violence is a way to solve a conflict (Bancroft, 2004). These tactics are used mainly to gain more power and influence within the relationship and men usually utilize them over