Speech Comm

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

[She comes into class, her hair unusually wavy and dressed in a long rust broomstick skirt and a buttery yellow sweater. SHe looks unlike herself...in fact, if any of the students take Ethics or Philosophy, they will be reminded of Professor Maclay]

301--Family: Friends and Lovers
An interesting issue came up earlier I want to address. What do you think about the idea that intimacy in a relationship can foster a situation where communication breaks down. Where the sender and reciever are not even passing a message, or that message is so mangled there is no real communication going on? This only happens at the highest levels of intimacy, and since friends and lovers count as chosen family, that's where we will focus today.

Ok, gang, go.

Comments

[miss-monochrome.livejournal.com]

Um... ::looks vaguely uncomfortable:: Sometimes...sometimes in a relationship, one person might...might gain an idolized image of the other person and they might just be...be intentionally ignoring anything the other person might be saying that goes against that image. Then sometimes...sometimes the other person might feel the need to...to make a really big statement to get their point across, to actually get the other person to listen. So it's not that they weren't...that they weren't communicating, it's, like you said, a mangled message, based on what the other person wants to hear.