Exploring Communication Dynamics in Personal Relationships

Most of my recent communication relationships have been with my husband, my children, friends, and fellow worshipers. I may include all or some of these and I will address each individually in my examples and answers. This should be interesting. I have elected to discuss: Communicating responsiveness, communicating lack of responsiveness/Subordination, and Expressing Equality.

First, I would like to tell you about how my relationship with my husband has evolved over the years when it comes to communicating responsiveness, lack of responsiveness, and subordination. When my husband and I got married my husband had very high expectations on how our communication should take place. Let me explain. He would ask politely if I could accomplish a

All terms of good character, much needed in agreeable interpersonal communication. Let’s look at face to face communication versus media communication. Expressing equality involves what is referred to as relational communication, or metacommunication. (Reference here from textbook). In metacommunication we must consider form, content, and context. Many aspects are involved, such as education on ways to communicate within these three areas mentioned. A decision must be made on what form of communication is best for the situation. For instance, As a Youth Leader at the church I attend, I decided it was important to send my planned events both in written form, and via text. In written form because I consider a typed agenda a professional document that informs and my receiver’s could refer back to and keep handy. I sent a text message the week of the event as a reminder. With the content of each form of communication I considered the age, gender, time of day, and context in which each individual or group was in at the moment. In social settings with face to face communication, form is more important than content, whereas in non-face to face communication content is more important since the receiver interprets one’s character or form of expression based on our written communication. One can interpret a person’s character by their tone of voice for

My form of communication involved a typed agenda with the scheduled activities for the month, phone calls, text messages. Phone calls with information and reminders were made. Before I engaged in any type of communication I had to think about how I was going to relay each message effectively with the following factors to consider: Whom the message is intended for; what might be their state of mind at the moment, my objective in communication, what points I wanted to cover. Each time I communicated and dependent upon whom my receiver was I had to communicate in ways which served the best interest of the receiver. I also had to remember to show respect to each person or group within the content and context of my messages. (Petrie, Pat,