Emotional Communication Essay

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Emotion undoubtedly affects communication. Here are several terms to help clarify the relationship between emotion and interpersonal communication. Emotional contagion, the process of transferring emotions from one person to another. Emotional experience, the feeling of emotion. Communicating emotionally, communicating such that the emotion is not the content of the message but rather a property of it. Emotional effects, the ways in which an emotional experience impacts communication behavior. Emotional communication, talking about our feelings to another person. Below are examples of each term and how each impacted my relationship. And, how I might change my emotional behavior in the future to help me achieve a goal. Also, how I believe the …show more content…

The conversation started out by us talking about how life was not what we expected it to be. He began to explain how life had knocked him down so hard he wanted to take his life. I found myself feeling the emotion he had went through, I felt hopeless, but then he began to explain how he leaned to God for answers, and it turned his life around. I then felt hope and happiness knowing he is doing much better. This impacted our relationship greatly. Our friendship is now built on a stronger bond.
An example of emotional experience, is on my first day of work at James Avery I felt a sense of nervousness. A few weeks later I began to open up more, all my co-workers told me they could tell I was nervous, but everyone is on their first day. This impacted my relationship with my coworkers because since they knew I was nervous they were extremely kind when welcoming me to the team, now I feel like apart of the James Avery …show more content…

One day I got tired of it and yelled at her to be more clean and not such a slob. This impacted our relationship because after that, she began to pick up after herself more often.
An example of emotional effects is when I went to the Cody Johnson concert at the Walker County Fairgrounds, my ex decided to walk up to me and say hello, which is not a big deal but that same week he vented to me that I destroyed his world, and he would never be able to forgive me. I was confused as to why he would want to say hello if he felt that way. I could not carry a conversation with him because I kept recalling the conversation we had. I felt sad the rest of the concert knowing what I did to him, the next day I decided to text him to explain why I broke with him, that the time was just not right. This impacted our relationship because we are now friends again, and try not to look back on the past.
An example of emotional communication is since my ex and I have started talking again sometimes we reminisce on our past emotions towards each other. This impacted our relationship to possibly reconsider getting back

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