17 October 2005

Communication and Relationships

Relationships are a lot of hard work. Hopefully the willingness to communicate will always exceed the inability to do so. First it is hard to objectively know what one is going thorugh, how and why one is getting affected, then there is this burden of decision as to whether or not to share this discovery and to what extent, and then the final onus of how best to communicate without implicating the listener of an assumed wrong doing/intent. After all, the prime purpose of communication in a relationship is to eliminate alienation and increase proximity. However, it is still a delicate balance since the effort to explain or understand is not entirely free of the risk of being misunderstood.