This seems logical but in practice it isn't. Communication when it involves almost nothing but "I don't approve" is not communication. Which is why I emphasized acceptance over communication. Trust me, communicating "I don't agree with you" over and over again doesn't get you anywhere.
well, I'm posting from my kindle so was trying to be short and succinct. The example was probably simplistic though. I mean the ability to be able to get across your feelings and issues with your partner in a concise and fair way would be paramount in an open relationship. Just too many avenues for misunderstandings and escalation if you can't adequately get your point across when multiple people are involved. But yes I think acceptance is the first hurdle to overcome in regards to having an open relationship of any type.
Again, that's acceptance. Not "communication". You can "communicate" until you're blue in the face. If your partner doesn't accept your point of view it's a moot point.
Communication is how let your partner know that you are accepting of certain things (and not of others). You cannot have acceptance without communication. You cannot have emotional intimacy without communication. You cannot really understand what is going on with yourself or with the other person without communication. Communication isn't more or less important than anything else for an open relationship (or any relationship), it is a component so basic that without it there is nothing. You have to understand what it is you are accepting before you accept it, which involves communication. Or you run into situations like the guy who thought his wife would "settle down." Did she communicate that? Doubtful, he assumed it and "accepted" it without communication as to the reality and now his unhappy. If you aren't communicating, nothing else matters, and if you are communicating, either everything can be worked out, or you can come to an understanding that it isn't ever going to work. A lot of relationships where people are unhappy fall into the latter category but people don't know that because they didn't, or don't know how to, communicate. So if I seem like I constantly harp on the importance of communication, there is a good reason, I think it is essential to everything else even being a reality.
You are more full of shit than Ayn fucking Rand.
He isn't saying anything controversial. He's saying nothing of substance. He's regurgitating sentence after sentence of words that mean nothing.
That would be because Khane isn't communicating his objection very well, ironically. Though I understand what he is saying, unfortunately the reverse isn't true. Ah well.
I'm communicating my objection in perfect iambic pentameter. You aren't nearly as smart as you like to pretend. Go dance it off.
LoL, that's the best excuse I've heard I think so I'll allow it.
So you agree, acceptance is the key.
Then it isn't communication.
That's called acceptance. Which is my point.
Sure if you are reducing communication to its most basic idea, then yes it means nothing. I think in the context of relationships communication just isn't about information transfer. It also encompasses how you handle said information, whether you are open to it or not, and many other things. It just isn't simply talking or yelling.
AKA, acceptance.
