LETTER OF ADVICE

Letter of Advice

Interpersonal Communication and Relationships

Dear Sara and Tim,

My advice to you for a successful relationship is based on the basis of interpersonal communication. Interpersonal communication in any form, which will be the critically evaluated and discussed throughout my entire letter, will highlight towards creating a balanced and joyful relationship especially amongst life partners. Relationship development among two opposite genders is mainly enriched and flourished through usage of correct interpersonal communication dialect and modes. As you both would be familiar that interpersonal communication is not only verbal but rather can also be non-verbal. Interpersonal communication plays a very important role in developing a relationship especially for one which is till eternity (marriage).

However, this concept, I thought would be require critically reviewing over all aspects. Relationships constantly change as does relational communication. Successful relational partners - whether they are new or old—learn how to adjust their communication to meet the challenges and changes that they face. For example a new spouse may need to find new ways to show affection to each other when they are preoccupied with each other and their careers. Long-distance relationships provide a great example of the dynamic nature of relational communication. Partners in long-distance relationships sometimes idealize each other, in part because they are always on their best behavior when they spend time together. When the relationship becomes proximal their interpersonal communication may not always be as positive, leading many couples to break up. Hence, I thought of presenting some of these aspects and analyzing over them briefly.

Understand how perceptions, emotions, and nonverbal expression affect interpersonal relationships

An analogous shift in the study of emotion over the past two decades has particular resonance with the psychology of gender. Perception and emotion together have come to be viewed as fundamentally social processes. These are shifts which bring with them a renewed focus on the context within which emotion occurs.

The theme of emotion as a feature of relationships is especially evident in developmental psychology. Dr. Joseph Campos, a psychiatrist and also a friend of mine notes that the new psychology of emotion is characterized by “postulation of a close Interrelation between emotion and the goals and strivings of the person; its emphasis on emotional expressions as social signals; and the hypothesis that the physiology of emotion, far from involving only homeostasis and the internal milieu, can regulate and be regulated by, social processes”. The move towards viewing emotion as essentially social has become as readily embraced by theorists who espouse an evolutionary perspective as by those who work from a social constructionist perspective (Kalbfleisch, 1993).

One manifestation of the rediscovery of emotion as a social phenomenon is a new emphasis on the intersection of emotion and gender. The first indication that there was much to be gained by investigating this intersection were several reviews that aimed to make some sort of theoretical sense out of a literature that largely had grown out of a theoretic al investigations of sex-related ...