Introdction

               My name is Abenaa Boatemaa-Antwi. I am from Ghana. I relocated from Michigan to Virginia in 2010 because my father as pastor was offered a pastoral job. I graduated from Potomac High school in 2011. My freshmen year of college I attend a Christian private university call Southern Adventist in Tennessee, but transfer NOVA because the tuition got higher. I love singing, reading, drawing, photography, cooking, volunteering, working with my hands, and teaching the children at church. I don’t normally like to call them “hobbies” but rather passions. My future goals are to finish my bachelor degree at George Mason University. I hope after my B.S. I get accepted into the Physician Assistant program at Loma Linda University in California. Since I love helping people, with a degree as a physician Assistant I want to be able to go back to Africa or the other third-world countries to help out anyway as I can. Another future goal is to get married to a very handsome man, and have four children. 

               My blog is about communication. I chose communication because I’ve always lacked that in all of my relationships. I never cared to discuss any previous arguments my boyfriend, and I had or was interested in solving it to make our relationship last. After my boyfriend of four years and I broke up, and lost a lot of good friends; I decided to pay more attention to the way I communicate with people. Many relationships now days are ending due to the lack of communication. The causes of lack of communicate can be pride, lack of similar interests, not knowing how to talk positive to your partner. This makes couples grow farther apart from each other, and start cheating because they found someone who they can communicate better with. Men and women as we know are very different and even more different when it comes to communicating. Women, we like to talk about our feelings and then get all emotional, and I do not think it’s a bad thing; however, when men get emotional in our society now, he is called weak and not a man.  Men speak in “Report” talk, because they convey information, and then get on with their lives. And women speak in “Rapport” talk because they want to talk about their feelings and establish intimacy. I hope you enjoy this blog.