The Break Up

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Introduction
Effective communication is one of the most important things to maintain a happy relationship. Communication will help to create a better atmosphere and to know what are the interests, thoughts and feelings of your loved one. All romantic relationships need a lot of communications from both sides. The main factor is interpersonal communication, which couples are able to overlap environments and create a relationship. We reviewed the movie “The Breakup” and have found the concepts of Integrating, differentiating, and terminating. This movie shows how ineffective communication can dissolve a relationship. The lack of communication is the main factor why Brooke and Gary break up. This couple tends to rely on other people instead of trying to solve their problems talking to each other. They avoid talking because every time a new conflict will begin. In many of the scenes the couple creates big arguments from small issues. In this paper, we will explain the scenes of the movie that can be compared to the interpersonal communication concepts.
Description of the Interpersonal Communication
The first concept we choose to write on is initiating. According to the book Looking Out Looking In, initiating is the first stage of a relationship, and it means to show interest in another person and to give signals that shows interest building up some kind of relationship. (Alder, 2012) In the movie one of the scenes where the concept of initiating is displayed is when Brooke is staring at a baseball game and Gary was sitting near her. Suddenly Gary offers Brooke a hot dog, after insisting several times she finally gets the hot dog. After the baseball game Gary invites Brooke to a date.
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The second concept we choose to write on is dif...

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...gs. They should know what they like and dislike. Many times romantic partners forget the simple details their loved one like. Many arguments they had were about him, she never show her support. She only wanted for him to do things by himself, not him asking her to do them. When he finally thought things it was too late, Brooke was tired of always having the whole responsibility of the relationship. In order to maintain a relationship both of the partners need to communicate effectively, this will help to solve any kind of problem they can have.

Works Cited

Adler, Ronald B., Judith A. Rolls, and Russell F. Proctor. LOOK: Looking Out, Looking in. Toronto: Nelson Education, 2012. Print.
Carvalho, Claudio. "The Break-Up." IMDb. IMDb.com, n.d. Web. 06 May 2014.
The Break Up. Dir. Peyton Reed. Perf. Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn. Universal Pictures, 2006. DVD.

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