LP7

      A relatioship, everyone has relationships in their life whether it's family, a boyfriend/girlfriend, husband/wife, co-worker, or friend. A relationship by definition is a meaningful, dyadic, person-to-person connection in which two interdependent people engage in communication of a persoanl nature, develop a shared history, and try to meet each other's social needs. The way we communicate in any relationship can determine whether that relationship will end in termination or not.
      In any relationship there is some sort of conflict, it could be about someone not taking out the garabage or about a financial situation. Some people would rather talk about the conflict and some would rather say nothing at all. There have been times in my life where I have done both. Sometimes I have a hard time explaing or expressing my feeling to others and in one of my relationships I kept my real feeling inside to avoid conflict, but in the end the reason that there was conflict in the first place was because I hid my feelings. Due to my hidden feeling, the person that I had a relationship with lied to me, which made more conflict. Eventually it got to the point where I couldn't handle the lying and going behind my back, so the relationship resulted being terminated.
      On the opposing side of me hiding my feeling, eventually I burst which is why it is never good to hold true feeling inside. A different relationship of mine with a family member got to that point of bursting. I eventually decided to speak up because I couldn't handle the anger I felt along with the stress. So, we started having a conversation, but it ended in screaming and walking away. After we both cooled off and thought straight, we met up again and had an actual conversation. We both needed to be understanding and talk about how we both felt. After our conversation, we both kept our word about working harder on our relationship.
      I believe that communication is really the key to any relationship in life. If you don't communicate with eachother, then you won't know what the other person is thinking or feeling. I have personally learned that if you express your feeling and tell the truth it's so much easier to have a closer relationship with people in your life.