Self Disclosure In Relationships

Self-Disclosure is when a person opens themselves up to another person.There are some people that when it comes to self-disclosure it’s no problem for them to share, but there are others that take self-disclosure very seriously. Those who self-disclose easily are probably the ones that love to talk to others. The ones that actually don’t like self-disclosing are typically the ones that feel vulnerable when they do self-disclsose. Some people may think that self-Disclosure is one of the most important things when it comes to developing a relationship. The relationship could be romantic or it could me just a friendship.To have a strong relationship with a person there must be trust involved. For that trust to accumulate a person has to become

In some occasions, in a romantic relationship they are eachothers bestfriends.Also some bestfriedns tend to get overly protective when they see a possibility of them getting closer to another person. The article “Effects of self-disclosure and responsiveness between couples and passionate love within couples. “ shows how self-disclosure will affect how couples feel about how close they are to each other. Its easy to share stuff with people you already confined in rather than strangers. This article did experiments between couples to see the effects and how they respond to self-closure. They also matched up the couples with different people to see how they self disclosed.They were trying to see if sharing something with another person is the same as sharing it with someone that they are close to. Also, it showed that by manipulating the way the participants had to disclose the information it made it easier for them to discuss it with strangers. For example, such as a game, where participants ask each other questions about themselves, they arnt as hesitant because it’s a game. Still the results showed that couple self disclosed more with their partner because they felt comfortable but it was

In the article Daily Self disclosure and sleep in couples.” it shows how self-disclosure can actually affect a person’s health by their sleep. If a person’s health is affected, it will eventually also affect the relationship. For example, In my previous relationship, I had a boyfriend that would call me at night so we could talk about our days. There were also sometimes were he would not call me. The times where he would not call me and I would stay up a littl longer just to see if he would call. The times that he did not call were the ones that I lost sleep and was in a bad mood. The article focused on an experiment on married couples and their disclosure. They wanted to see if the effects of the couple self disclosing and if it affected their sleep.The experiments showed that on the days that some wives self-disclosed more, they slept more. When it came to the husbands, their sleep did vary by the self-disclosure. Although the article did a good job in collecting the data they got, they were biased and only worked off couples that had healthy sleep schedules. Not every couple has a healthy sleeping schedule some work night and other mornings. Their input would of changed the direction of this