thirteen years Essay

Submitted By flower831

Words: 504

Pages: 3

Open Document

After reading the article “Close Relationships Sometimes for the Mask Poor Communication” it opens my eyes completely. My husband and I have poor communication skills; cannot believe after being with this man for thirteen years, I have just notice the problem. You think we know each other well enough to understand each expression, tone and body language. We both have faults in our communication, I have trouble listening, where he absolutely loves to take over the conversation and correct me. What we both have in common; is cutting each other off. He explains to me that he does not notice himself doing any of that. Most of the time he is talking at me and not to me like a loving husband would or should. Half the time I feel like a five year old child who is being told what and what not to do, or being lectured. However, when confronting him, I am told I read too much into the situation and blow it out of proportion, or that I put words into his mouth. It’s unbelievable how one small article can open your eyes to a small issue that can become the downfall of one’s marriage? It states in the article, “Spouses sometimes communicate with each other no better than stranger’s (Health Days News, 2011). My personal opinion is talking to a complete stranger sometimes can be better. I have had some good random conversations with strangers who might be at the doctor’s office or parks, etc. Even though you need to be careful at times who you talk to, it’s nice, relaxing and refreshing to talk to somebody different now and then. Not always the same person you talk and see every day, such as your spouse, mother, father or sister. I have been with my husband for a long time, since high school. And to make our communication stronger we can first stop interrupting each other, letting us stop and take turns speaking. I can

Romeo: Thirteen-year-old Juliet Essay

William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a story about two feuding families: the Montagues and the Capulets. Thirteen-year-old Juliet is a Capulet, and in the beginning she has no particular desire to get married and is willing to do what her parents ask her to do. Her parents are not pushing her to get married, either. When Paris asks Capulet if he can marry Juliet, Capulet is not particularly interested because she is his only child and he wants to be sure she is happy. The earth hath swallow'd…

Words 617 - Pages 3

Classical: Names of Large Numbers and Various Sentence Starters Essay

hundred minutes. That is seventy hours a week. In a year I will sleep five hundred hours. That’s like two hundred nineteen thousand (219,000) minutes a year dedicated to sleeping. Then in my lifetime I will spend fifty thousand (50,000) hours. That is twenty-two million (22,000,000) minutes. That is about one hundred and thirty-two million (132,000,000) seconds. Which is also thirteen billion (13,200,000,000) milliseconds. This is also thirteen quadrillion and two hundred billion (13,200,000,000…

Words 432 - Pages 2

Number 13 Symbols

controversial, and the first is numerical: the number thirteen. The number thirteen is apparent in the arrows and olive branch, the stars above the eagle, and the thirteen stripes on the shield and these features, of course, allude to the thirteen original colonies. However, what if these symbols mean much more than…

Words 672 - Pages 3

Analysis Of Thirteen

film Thirteen serves as a loud mouthpiece for the young, and an effective example of how pop culture can open our eyes and ears to the troubling reality of life in today's world for the emerging generations. If this is indeed their world and we haven't been listening, we'd better start paying attention. The reality Thirteen presents is anything but pretty, but it's true. A film about 13-year-olds written by 13-year-old Nikki Reed with help from writer/director Catherine Hardwicke, Thirteen takes…

Words 493 - Pages 2

Jay Asher Suicide Research Paper

Sadly, millions of people are affected by suicide each year. Every forty seconds someone in the world dies by committing suicide. For people between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four years old, suicide is the second leading cause of death. Studies show that there are approximately one hundred and five Americans in the United States that die by suicide each day. As for people of all ages, suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in the U.S. The families of suicide victims have to live with…

Words 1336 - Pages 6

Case Study Tony Fabulous

from thirteen to seventeen should have an mature adult to make the major decisions for them. In the case of Tony Fabulous, his parents would be saving his life by making the decision for him. He would die if the doctors listened to his decision, whether it is based on his beliefs or not and a child of his age is not set in their beliefs and the can change from day to day, so who is to say that he would not change his religion later on in life? In the case of Maria Orangeade, she is thirteen years…

Words 368 - Pages 2

American Revolution Lecture Summary Essay

demographic terms as a result of the loss of the thirteen American colonies through the American Revolution. But this shift was also due to three additional factors: the declining economic importance of the West Indies; Latin American independence; and the substitution of a free trade regime for a mercantilist system. The change meant that the British Empire shifted its geographic focus from America and the Atlantic to Asia and the Pacific. The loss of the thirteen colonies also meant that the population…

Words 537 - Pages 3

book review for 13 reasons why Essay examples

with but merely knows by a distance commits suicide. With this news clay also receives a package in the mail with thirteen taped recorded messages inside, plus a map with a number of places circled. There is also no return address. Clay plays the tapes immediately and is shocked to find out that they are from Hannah, giving thirteen reasons why she ended her life. Hannah speaks on thirteen different people and the role they played in her life. The tapes that she sent before her death ask each person…

Words 621 - Pages 3

What Is The Southern Argument To Abolish Slavery

Short Paper B America has been thought of as the land of the free for many years, however, there was a time were slavery was legal and a huge part of the thirteen colonies. There was much controversy over the fact that the "American Revolution" was fought to bring freedom from the European powers, but the fact that there was slavery in the thirteen colonies was an issue. The slaveholders kept the slaves to do manual labor such as working the fields growing crops to keep the economy alive and to…

Words 646 - Pages 3

Essay about Change over Time

was plagued by a self-absorbed, minimal perspective focused on myself. It took me until eighth grade to transform my selfish perspective into a wider perspective focused on individuals in much greater need than myself. Regretfully, it took me thirteen years of life to understand the art of compassion and to realize that there is always somebody who has it worse than myself. I’ll never forget the time when I came to the realization that there was more to life than trying to impress others and caring…

Words 940 - Pages 4