Today is a Travel Day – Going to Seattle! Dear Commons Community, My wife, Elaine and I, will be traveling to the beautiful city of Seattle today to visit my daughter and her family. Tony
Oprah Winfrey, No Contact Parent-Child Relationships, and MyselfWhen reading about how relational dialectics manifest in our personal relationships, I learned that awareness about relation dialectics, which are a set of needs for every person in a relationship that must be negotiated by those involved, is only a small part of navigating interpersonal relationships. According to L.A. Baxter, there are four ways people can manage dialectical tensions in their interpersonal relationships. For this post, I want to focus on Baxter’s fourth option for handling dialectical tension between people in a relationship, the option to reframe the dialectical tension, utilizing Oprah Winfrey’s podcast episode interviewing adult children who have initiated no-contact relationships with their parent(s). I write about this podcast episode to apply Baxter’s option of reframing dialectical tensions because in this episode, a few of the interviewed children discuss their no-contact boundary with their parent(s) as a necessary measure of protection for themselves and their own children. These testimonials reveal how a child’s reframing of their no-contact measure clarifies that no-contact does not contradict or oppose that child’s love for their parent(s). As someone who has established a no-contact boundary with my parent, I realize that I also engage in reframing my strategy for managing the dialectical tension between myself and my parent, like the testimonials do in Oprah’s podcast. I also reframe the no-contact boundary as ultimately supporting my relationship with my parent because no communication is never contradicting or […]“Oprah Winfrey, No Contact Parent-Child Relationships, and Myself”
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