Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Communication

Nov 1st was a holiday and we were supposed to clean up the house. What we ended up doing was watching movies. Occasionally one gets to see a movie which will force you to think what if?
The movie I am talking about is Let’s Talk. It has an amazing performance by Boman Irani (Of the Munna Bhai fame). More important is the Ram Madhvani- Script writer / Director who has gone through the pains of writing about those different emotions. The movie is about what will be the different reactions a Husband will portray when his Partner/Wife/Girlfriend tells you she is pregnant and he is not the father!
The entire duration of the movie I was wondering what if I am posed a similar situation. The different emotions revealed were Depression, Anger, Violence, Revenge, Empathy, Irrationality, Denial, Forgiveness. I had to repeat some sections of the movie to understand why the wife cheated. And viola it was because of what I advocate ‘Communication’, there was a break in their communication and the wife cheats after 5 years from the time it broke. Now god knows why she took so long, according to me it happens much earlier in reality.
Communication is a very important aspect in a couple life, it is more important that sex. Any successful relationship rests on a clear and candid communication between the two. We men especially got to learn to listen for adjectives. Happily married and married is very different!