March Blog Post

       From the day we are born, we are immediately forming a relationship with someone (your mother). That is why I have chosen to write about them here in this blog post. After all, relationships make life worth living. Relationships allow people to grow closer to one another. They allow people to become friends or even lovers. Thus, making the topic of relationships a very important concept to comprehend.

       The sentence that stood out to me, from the readings, was from chapter ten of the book. It states, “Perhaps one of the greatest injustices that film and television commit, for us as people trying to make relationships work, is the way these storytellers imply that relationships are easy” (Warren & Fassett 2015). This sentence basically means that it is a shame that “Hollywood” portrays relationships as being easily obtained and managed. In reality, this is not the case. It takes a lot of hard work to start a relationship, and even harder work to maintain that relationship. This is expressed in the HUFFPOST article “Good Relationships Take Hard Work” (https://www.huffingtonpost.com/deborah-l-cabaniss-md/good-relationships-take-hard-work_b_9358456.html). This article pertains to this blog post by giving us a real life example of what maintaining a relationship is like. The article also goes into detail on ways to build/maintain a relationship. With relationships being such important parts of our lives, it is obvious how important this article is.

       Understanding what it takes to make and maintain a relationship is important because this has to do with interpersonal relationships. Interpersonal relationships effect many parts of our lives, including our culture. Understanding that relationships are hard, also effects our communication as a whole. It effects our communication because it sets standards of how we should look at a relationship. Thus, telling us how we should act when talking with someone new, or with someone we have known.

       I have just moved here from Oklahoma, and it has been hard to make relationships. The culture up here in Boise is a little different than I am use to experiencing. However, after educating myself about relationships, I hope I can apply what I have learned, and continue to build relationships based on love and trust. After all, that is what we all want. We want a friend or even a significant other to love and trust us. Like it is mentioned in the first  paragraph, this is what adds meaning to our lives.

Warren, John T., and Deanna L. Fassett. Communication: a critical/Cultural introduction. 2nd ed., Sage, 2015.