Active Listening In Close Relationships

Conflicts in close relationships subsist inevitable, as relationships preserve natural tensions that emerge during conflicting moods and preferences. These conflicting perspectives, while they do not uphold desirable, retain the aptitude to exhibit to a couple in what way they acknowledge and react to conflicts in their relationships, whether that exists through aggression, active listening, or avoidance. Of the three demonstrations, active listening in relationships stands the most beneficial. According to the text, “the speaker-listener technique provides a structure for calm, clear communication about contentious issues that promotes the use of active listening skills and increases the chances that partners will understand and validate each other despite their disagreement” (Miller, 2012, p. 358). While this technique does not necessitate that the partner’s coincide with one another’s viewpoint, it does request both partners to listen and understand the motive behind their partner’s perspective. Upon observing the speaker-listener technique, I think this technique survives
Recently, I discerned that in my arguments, both my partner and I actively voice our opinions, but fail to genuinely listen to one’s another viewpoint. We tend to listen, yet rest hesitant in one another’s perspectives. When we tried the speaker-listener technique, I observed that it emerged somewhat awkward at first, but it effectively ended an argument, without leaving feelings of resentment towards one another. I felt that I subsisted able to openly voice my concerns without judgment, as he listened to my complete argument, before adding additional comments. When he was speaking, I contemplated on his wording and reasoning, rather acting on my emotions. This sanctioned me to value and apprehend his concerns, without my opinions clouding my