Intercultural Communication Experience Essay

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28, Georgia born African American male and a married Army Soldier. We married a little over five years with two daughters Mylah, 4 and Makennah, 1. Both of our girls are in swim and gymnastics amongst other activities. Our family is Christian and we are members of Horizon Church where we worship, and volunteer. Having a strong faith base and volunteering is the two greatest intercultural communication character traits that we desire to pass along to our children. Intercultural communication experiences will allow our children to be open and kind to different cultures (culture sensitivity). Our faith and humanitarian disposition grounds our family to conquer all challenges.
My wife, Ieshia and I met in Georgia while I was home visiting …show more content…

It was important that we shared assumptions about reality. One of the challenges that we faced was how to discipline our child. Due to us having very different family dynamics growing up and me missing nine months of our daughter life it created a disruption in the transmission process and my wife would complain that I was not disciplining age appropriately. However, I had a deep desire to feel respected and included. This caused constant frustrations in our home. The second challenge we faced was resentment. Although my wife knew that I didn’t choose to be deployed and when to be deployed she felt I left her to do everything all alone. She felt that she came from working, owning a business and always being busy to being dropped on an island only to serve me and then being left alone. She would always bash me for being gone and how she could do things on her own. This made me feel excluded from the family, which turned my intrapersonal communication into to an internal sadness and then to anger. ¬¬As time went on I felt like we slowly began to reconnect through interpersonal interaction by attending marriage counseling and doing the things we enjoyed together again. Marriage counseling has opened my wife and me up to self-disclosure and listening to one another. The Sherman and

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