Patterns in Family Communication

Running head: FAMILY COMMUNICATION 1
Family Communication
Name
Institution
What patterns exist in your family in relation to each of this Aspect of communication?

FAMILY COMMUNICATION 2
Story telling
I find myself more often telling all these kind of stories to my friends and a time just writing
them down when no one is around or ready to listen. I got curious and decided to find out more
about my family’s genogram. The revelation was shocking, it turned out that my great
grandmother was a very famous story teller. She got all these stories about the world. She was an
individual who loved collecting stories from all over the country and tell it to her community as a
way of educating them.
In the evening groups of people would gather by her house just for these stories. Apparently
it is my father who inherited this gene of storytelling, he would tell us bed time stories and a time
he would even write short stories, as articles, in magazines. In my generation, I am the one who
inherited this character. My passion for telling stories came from my great grandmother who
could not stop telling stories.
Sex
One of my cousins just my age, is in a committed same- sex relationship with one of our
friends, Sheila. Together they have adopted children, she did this prior to her relationship, and
her partner also has a child who she delivered with the help of an anonymous sperm donor that is
during the term of this current relationship. My cousin, her husband and these kids create a
household. According to my genogram, my cousin, Cynthia, had a strong relationship with her
mother until she passed away at 36.
Cynthia grew estranged from her father who had no time for her children and was not
emotionally attached to them. Interestingly, her brother is also in a committed same sex
relationship. Cynthia’s maternal great grandmother was homosexual and through a sperm donor