Masking Poor Communication

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RUNNING HEAD: MISCOMMUNICATION Miscommunication Lindsy K Vickers COM 200: Interpersonal Communication Instructor: Jennifer Williams 11-02-2013 After reading the article on “Close Relationships Sometimes Mask Poor Communication”, I know I had some kind of relation to it. My husband and I have poor communication skills all the time. We have been together for 8 years and only married four years, and we still have a problem communicating. He likes to take over the conversation, or cut me off when we are talking. He said that is because he has short term memory, and that I am long winded, and he has short term memory , and needs to get respond to what I am saying or he will forget if he lets me finish. I on the other hand feel like he is talking at me not to me. Sometimes he is makes me feel like I don’t have a clue on what it going on. My husband also believes that I read too much into his facials expressions and the tone of his voice. At times, he thinks I just turn his words into something he did not mean. For myself, this article was on point also and eye opener. In reading the article it stated that “In fact, spouses sometimes communicate with each other no better than strangers do, a new study suggest“. ( Ashford student library ProQuest U.S. News & World Report. Washington: Jan 2011. p. 1 ). In my own personal option I do think that some couples communicate better with strangers than they do each other. What are something’s that I can do to make this does not happen again is. I can having stopping points when I am talking to see if he has something say at that time. I can also express how I am feeling about this tone, and his facial expression so that we will be on that same page. That way we will not assume what the other is saying or thinking. In chapter three of Interpersonal Communication it list things that we can do to improve our

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