Kevin Truong

COMM 104

26 February 2020

Interview Partner: Mikey

                                                                                                                                                         EYMA 2

                       My words influence my partner because we trust each other very well and accept each other when we say or do something wrong. There are incidents where I miscommunicate with him or he miscommunicates with me. When that happens, I try to explain it in other words to help him understand the meaning of what I am actually saying. We have developed acceptance because even though we make mistakes or wrongly decode text messages, we know that acceptance helps you build and strengthen that relationship with your significant other. We have both affected each other by miscommunication but that has also helped the relationship because there have been arguments where I said something and he interpreted it in a different way. We both know that not everyone is flawless so we have this acceptance in the relationship to help us resolve the problems we are stuck with. There have been times where he said he was getting better at basketball but I misinterpreted it and thought he said he was better than me at basketball because of the mistake I made by misreading the text. There are plenty of incidents similar to this one but we both managed to overcome these by accepting that everyone makes mistakes when they misinterpret a conversation. Our responsibility is to help each other improve at communicating with each other by having fierce conversations. We also have to be optimistic that we can fix the problems we have when we communicate so both of us can improve because we know that communication is a learning process. This is how we support each other to strengthen our understanding and relationship because without these self-concepts, we wouldn't accept each other for what we say and do. I am satisfied with the way we have affected each others self-concept because I see him valuing most of the same things that I also value. Having the same self-concepts also helps our relationship because we can have fierce conversations about what we value the most in our life. We have some struggles when having fierce conversations because sometimes the topic is so short that when we talk, our conversations are also really short so we don't have that time to be real with each other. We need to improve on being fierce with each other by coming up with topics that both of us can relate to and talk a lot about to help us communicate more effectively.