1) Chapter 10 is mostly about marriage, and then there’s a part about communication at the end. It starts off with why people choose to get married. Then, what people expect to get out of the marriage, like things such as an engagement period and a big wedding ceremony. Next, it talks about the different types of marriages, mostly just based off of the United States. Success and happiness in marriage is discussed next. Then, there’s a part about how marriage can actually affect people’s health. The next part is about roles people play in marriages. Then, how marriages change throughout the time they last. Now, it gets to the part about communication. What couples fight about is a part of it. And last, it talks about communication patterns that are productive and help make a marriage work.
2) One thing that I found to be particularly interesting was the box about child brides. It discussed how, in some countries, fathers will exchange their daughters for money. They will use them to pay off a debt, or just to get something else they might need. The girls can be as young as 8 years old when this happens, marrying people that are as much as 60 years old. This seems very strange to people in our culture, but in some countries it seems that this is a fairly normal practice. Also, the other thing I thought was pretty interesting was that married people are actually healthier a lot of the time than single people.
3) One question I had was about communication. Why is it that some couples have more problems with actually listening and communicating (and not just talking)? Is it because they just don’t have a good, strong relationship, or is it due to some sort of stress, or could it be some other factor?
Natalie LaBarbera
Natalie,
ReplyDeleteI think quality communication has a lot to do with both practice and examples you're exposed to. I think that it takes practice to effectively communicate with individuals. I also think that we communicate the way we were taught to communicate or have seen other people communicate. For example, we are probably influenced by the way we see our parents communicate (or not communicate) and the way our friends communicate etc..
---Ali Mosser
I think communication has a lot to do with how a person is brought up. A person only knows how to communicate as well as what they have been exposed to. i think communication is a hard thing to be able to do successfully, and I feel like most marriages end because of poor communication.
ReplyDeleteSteve Boser