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Formal Letter - English

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FORMAL LETTER INTRODUCTION Dear Lindsay and Michael, I am writing you this letter to give you some friendly advice about interpersonal communication within your relationship with each other. I hope that these helpful tips help you both to make your communication thrive in your newly found engagement. There are many things that I would like to touch base on with you both; as I wish someone would have informed my fiancé and me when we decided to spend our lives together as well. An article I read states, when couples come together in marriage, they are faced initially with series of problems and differences that challenge their stability. This requires that on both sides, compromises, agreements and endurances must be met in …show more content…

Three hypotheses were tested using chi-square at 0.05 level of significance. Findings revealed that emotion management has significant effect on marital adjustment of couples. Emotional sensitivity skills were found to have significant effects on marital adjustment of couples. Social relationship skills had significant effect on marital adjustment of couples. Based on the findings, it was recommended that in both premarital and marital counselling, couples should be introduced to the competencies of Emotional intelligence. Through conjoint marital therapy, couples should be taught interpersonal relationship (communication) skills. Couples should be helped to develop emotion management skills. Couples should be taught emotional sensitivity skills. Ortese, P.T., & Tor-Anyiin, S. (2008). UNDERSTANDING HOW PERCEPTIONS, EMOTIONS, AND NONVERBAL EXPRESSIONS AFFECT INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS “Pay attention to the "unspoken" part of listening -- body language, tone of voice, and use of words. Both the listener and the speaker convey so much by the way that they hold their bodies.” Kang, S. (2012, Sep 13). Words do not always have to be said to express feelings. Actions show an immense amount of communication; as the old saying goes, “Actions speak louder than words”. For example, if you, Michael, think that Lindsay is being distant with you all of a sudden, you try to talk to her to

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