Healthy Romantic Relationships: Interpersonal Communication Tactics

Romantic relationships are an interesting topic, and while it can be a minefield to navigate your way through an unhealthy relationship, they can also be a beautiful thing. A healthy relationship shows a significant amount of hard work, pain, happiness, and most importantly, teamwork. In this unit paper I interview a longtime friend who is engaged; I analyze the discussion against unit three topics to show the interpersonal communication tactics taken in the relationship advice provided. In question “A” Victoria responded that one of the keys to a healthy romantic relationship is to “constantly pursue each other. I think that people often times get comfortable and stop fighting for the other and don’t do things to make them feel loved”. While

She stated “I think the one thing we should avoid when solving issues is yelling, and that is because it makes the other person heated and then it just goes back and forth escalating until it is out of control and people’s feelings get hurt”. This life tip in relation to McCornacks could be interpreted as many items, but I think most closely correlates to two communicative interactions. Firstly I think it relates to “Escalating”, McCornack describes this as when a argument becomes more heated and emotionally fueled, increasing the negativity and hostility of the situation (2015, pg. 263). I think that this conflict of competition is almost always accompanied with a dark interaction known as “kitchen sinking”, is when a discussion can shit and start instead of communicating effectively just hurl insults at one another (2015, pg. 255). Once kitchen sinking has begun the process of escalation is hand in hand and often leads to shooting matches and unhealthy communicative tendencies. This arguments can dredge up items that are not in topic and just cause pain to one or both parties, whilst this happens it becomes increasingly emotional and harder to take comments back. Partly due to the fact that you were emotional when you said it and many people may associate that to your truest, most honest