Communication Essay: The Communication Between My Mother And I

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The communication between my mother and I is one of the most important aspects that impact our relationship. The communication management styles we use is what has us in a conflict about where I will attend school college in the fall. However, getting my mother 's approval for transferring to a different college is important for me to get. Getting her approval is important to me because I respect her, but our communication skills is something that we both need to work on in order to come to a conclusion. When an argument beings between my mother and I, we both cope in different ways which may cause a miscommunication. The conflict between us began because we did not agree on my interests of why transferring would be the best decision for my …show more content…

For the most part, our relationship has had many ups and downs through the past years. I am the youngest of five children which has resulted in me having higher expectations to uphold. Any decision I have made in the past year, my mother tends to overanalyze. While I know she is always looking out for my best interest, her ways of communicating with me can come off as controlling. Dee loves to know every little thing that is going on in my life. Since I am a nineteen year old college student I feel like I deserve to have certain things in my life that she doesn’t need to be informed about at all times. My mother is a complete extrovert, she loves talking to anyone and everyone. She also takes any chance she can get to be the center of attention. I also am an extrovert, but on a lesser scale. I love spending time with my friends, going out, and meeting new people, however I do not like all the attention to be on …show more content…

When in a conflict I usually end up avoiding the conflict all together. I portrayed this when my mother got in the argument about me transferring to a different school I stopped talking to her for a few days. I avoided the topic at all costs. I have not expressed to my mom that it is important for me to get her support to transfer and feel like she understands why it will be a better school for me to attend. My mothers conflict management style she has always used is competing. She will never allow herself to not win the conversation. Often her reasoning for why she is right is because she is older and my mother, because of this she feels like because of this she will always know what the best thing for me is. When we are talking she seeks control of the conversation and tends to ignore my feelings of why I feel a certain

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