Short excerpt from a YouTube talk by Hinesh Chauhan (uploaded March 13, 2024) about communication problems in relationships. The speaker emphasizes that a message isn't truly 'received' until it's acknowledged and understood, and argues that men and women often communicate differently; unacknowledged requests can accumulate into resentment and eventual relationship breakdown.
As time goes on and whether ultimately the needs are not well communicated. Just because something is said or sent doesn't mean it's received and understood. If I sent you an email do I assume now that you have the message or my request and are either resisting to oblige or satisfy the request? Or maybe you just haven't read it. The point is a message isn't received until it's acknowledged that it was received. What it was seen, it was heard, it was understood. Now this is a common problem. Men and women communicate differently, we see things and hear things differently and this stacks over time and then boom all of a sudden you've got someone who spent several years doing what they feel as extra work and unfair amount of work and is not getting the support they need and has slowly pulled back and is now tapping out. So then boom the day comes where she sits him down and says this isn't working anymore I can't keep doing this.
