Self-Disclosure

Agnes Abetsi

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Self-Disclosure, Gender and Communication

Communication is a key for healthy relationship. Your willingness to open yourself to your partner will determine the stability in that relationship. Let your partner know what you like, dislike or what make you laugh and cry is really important in a relationship. Self-disclosure will certainly help your relationship grow healthy.

This article on self-disclosure brings something positive into relationship if followed. The consistence of what couple talk about all day is very important, some couple talk a lot, but they don’t talk about anything that will make the relationship work, healthy or stable. Sharing your feelings, your fear and your goals with your partner can be the key to a happy relationship, because partners are the one we expect to always be there when we are down. Personally I think the advice about the ten minutes of quality communication each day is a good one for me because it is something missing in my relationship. We talk a lot, but basically about nothing important. We don’t really know each other in fact I don’t even know who his best friend his or who are his friends. I think he knows more about me than I do about him. We are just an example of relationship that won’t go anywhere, because one is willing to communicate and the other no. My experience about self-disclosure is that we should all be willing to open to each other because if the other can’t say anything about himself, it shut down the other one. This isn’t good for the relationship.

Self-disclosure is important in a relationship because if someone is willing to share his fears, feelings, ambitions with you that mean the person value you a lot. The person feels safe with you. Self-disclosure is an important step to long term relationship. When you know someone very well some of his behaviors don’t get you upset anymore. You tell how the person feels just by looking at his face. You know when the person need you the...