Relationships : Communication is essential in any relationship

When couples are having problems in a relationship, communication is the first thing to stop. It is often easier to just be quiet than to get mad. When rebuilding relationships, just as communication was the first to stop, it now needs to be the first to start. Communication is often referred to as a way through which information is past on from one party to another. With the development in technology, there should sincerely be no more excuses of not keeping in touch with our loved ones .Communication could create or even destroy relationships. Come to think of it, I have heard couples that fall apart as a result of poor or no communication at all, this may sound irrelevant but the outcome can be fatal. Communication is put to the test especially in long distance relationships. For example; a husband takes a long time without making a phone call or emailing his wife who in turn develops second thoughts about their stability; she begins to wonder if her loved one is seeing some other woman; but there is no way of telling and this drives her crazy. After all with new advances in technology, communication has been made easy, why wait for a once vibrant relationship to fall apart? A friend of mine once told me, “it does not matter how many times we see, touch or even feel each other but how many times we keep in touch.” I strongly agreed with him because despite the distance, communication creates this simple bridge to tread on in order to reach a family, friend, fiancé and husband to know how they are doing. Share your joys and sorrows at all times. Does it ever cross your mind that there are couples, friends and even families that are far apart, scattered in different continents across the world, but are somehow brought together as a result of a simple phone call or chat session. In order to keep the fire of any relationship burning, communication must be priority. You never know what that simple call to someone may yield into. A relationship without communication is a dead one. Then sheer lack of communication gives people reason to quit a relationships; after all it is stunted, so why force life and hung in there yet there is no good coming out of it. jacqueuwera@yahoo.com