Interpersonal Relationship Essay

As we start to grow, we begin to build relationships that can be temporary or last a lifetime. These relationships help us learn more about ourselves and also about others. We learn how to build friendships and relationships from a young age, and we learn to cherish the people who stay for the long run. Then again, we also learn about the emptiness that is felt once someone dearly decides to no longer be in your life. With this being said I will be writing about my interpersonal relationship that I have with my boyfriend Jorge. Not only about our history and how we communicate, but as well as how we overcome conflict and the power that we each hold.
My relationship with Jorge began as a simple friendship, then our bond began to become stronger.
Conflicts can arouse from simple, insignificant things such as, reading a text message wrong, using the wrong tone of voice, or from just simply not being in a upright mood. There are different types of forms to handle a conflict. As DeVito notes in Messages, “Compromising- style is in the middle: There’s some concern for your own needs and some concern for the other’s needs” (p. 246). I am very persuasive when it comes to deciding on what to do this is known as power. According to DeVito, “Power-is the ability of one person to influence what another person thinks or does” (p. 313). For example, when it comes to going out to watch a movie Jorge always wants to watch a different one than I do. I always say, “Okay, you can go watch that one while I watch the one I want to see.” He argues and doesn’t want to, but at the end of it all I always attain what I want. Like every other relationship we are not a perfect couple. Of course, we have our ups and downs and have problems. I believe that some of the problems that we need to fix in our relationship is that when we argue to watch the way we say things. I also think that we need to start getting used to having less communication. This won’t be easy by any means because both coming from a Mexican background communication is very important. What I would like to change about me personally is that I can find more time to spend with him, because I know it’s tough on him that
We have learned countless things about each other and continue learning new things. Our conflicts make us stronger as well as the way we learn to resolve them. We have learned that compromising is better than competing to figure out who can win the argument. Building and trying to keep a relationship isn’t an easy task. Various relationships have fallen apart after countless number of fights. Knowing how to resolve conflict is an important part of the relationship as well as communicating. The rewards are very pleasing of course, but we can’t forget about the demands that come along and not just expect to be receiving without giving back to one another. Having an egoless partner has helped me to not only learn how to become a better person, but to cherish the knowledge that there is someone always there for me through thick and thin. As the days pass by my relationship with Jorge grows stronger and stronger as we try to improve our