Give an example of when bypassing may have occurred

19. Give an example of when bypassing may have occurred in your relationship.
How did you handle this?
A type of miscommunication that occurs when the speaker and listener (1) use
different words but give them the same meaning or (2) use the same words but
give them different meanings.
20. Do you and/or your partner engage in conversation that includes ageist, sexist,
heterosexist, racist, or other discriminatory language? If so, why? If not, why do

21. Discuss territoriality as it impacts your relationship. Pg 79
It has impacted our relationship, due to him saying something that I felt was
offensive to me in a situation that im in. I felt like he didn’t take my side so an
argument broke out.
22. Give an example of a time that you and your partner engaged in significant and
appropriate self-disclosure. What, if anything, changed about your relationship
after this point? Pg120,42,36-37
We have before but it rarely happens due to us telling stories that’s funny and how
our communicational part of the relationship started at the surface of the onion.

23. Using the stages of listening (as covered in text), discuss what went wrong during
a time that your partner did not listen to you well.
. Receiving (sensing)- Taking in all the stimuli that you sense (what you hear, see, smell,
etc.)
2. Interpreting supplying meaning to the messages you have sensed
3. Evaluating when you judge the message (like vs. dislike, agree vs. disagree)
4. Responding. When you give any type feedback
5. Memory (remembering) when you decide whether or not to retain any of the stimuli
that you have sensed.
one time he wasn’t really listening and fell asleep on me. And it made me feel less
comfortable talking to him, because I felt like I was just boring him.
24. Choose one of the three dialectical tensions discussed in class and briefly analyze
that tension in your own relationship. Pg41-42.152,213,270