Lost in Translation: Love Edition
If link fails, listen to Coldplay Talk Communication in a couple, a lot of it is non verbal, but we fail to say what is important I was reading a book where the couple was having a discussion somewhere along the lines of: Come over to my place? What will you do to me? I promise I won’t try to have sex with you! Then why should I come? So, as I always do, I started ruminating and thinking about how communication and more precisely the lack of it affects interpersonal relations. In the example above, the invitation to spend time together in an intimate setting could have also included the activities he had in mind. The girl being a virgin at the time, he could have obviously drawn a line at anything under the waist for example. I love surprises too, but in such a setting, setting boundaries and making sure expectations are met but not exceeded may be a good idea. You know, like Meatloaf set a boundary about what he could do f...
