How Do They Become More Similar?

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The study basically suggests that couples through time tend to become more similar because they spend more time together and adapt to their partners’ lifestyle and different ideas. Five factors that suggest how similar the personalities are were examined, which are openness, eroticism, conscientiousness, agreeableness, and extroversion. These factors were examined by making the couple reflect two times, upon themselves and their partner through online surveys and questionnaires. In fact, both eroticism and conscientiousness are greatly affected through time. As the duration of the relationship increases, couples become more similar in terms of these two factors, so overall, their similarity increases. Personally, I think that conscientiousness, …show more content…

Also, the nonverbal cues, such as rolling one’s eyes, loud sighing, or throwing hands up in disgust, undercut the ability to work through problems and challenges. That’s why partners should be able to recognize their feelings and how they react in order to avoid falling into the trap of the nonverbal cues. This shows how both self-awareness and emotional expression are related, and when both are improved, partners tend to feel that they are more similar, because they perfectly know how to avoid what alienates their partner and how to emotionally express themselves and what particularly their partner needs in order to feel appreciated. So, they will be careful when it comes to their self-awareness and emotional expression capabilities. Additionally, assertiveness which is the ability to communicate clearly, specifically, and unambiguously, while at the same time being sensitive to the needs of others and their responses in a particular encounter is very essential in relationships. Partners should be able to disagree with one another and communicate their different perspectives without crossing the

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