Al: yes. just a piece of the puzzle….

LOVE: you are right. we HAVE to consider how others will receive what we are giving. yes. totally. all the time…. communication is so much about what’s being heard – not just what’s being said.

Heather: LOL! you are SO right – where IS your sense of humor?!?

Mandy you know me pretty well, so obviously not all of me is on my blog. There are huge facets that I don’t know how to relay. My sense of humor for one thing, never comes across in written form! lol.

anyhow, there is my two cents!

Our communication is not what we say or the way we say it (and getting cross-post for a second humans communicate about 55% of what they mean/are via our body language, which can almost never be displayed on a blog (except for the ‘Mandy-mini’s ); 35% through the tone of our voice (hard to pick up on blogs) and only 9-10% through the actual words of what we say/write, hence we don’t have all that much chance of being ‘real’ here, folks! – However honestly we write.) no – our communication is what OTHER PEOPLE GET (not what we ‘say’).

We can try our darndest to say what we mean the way we mean it – that don’t mean the other people listening can hear what we truly mean the way WE meant it.

I think it is important to try to resolve any misunderstandings – particularly those that result in negative emotions. This can sometimes be quite easy (if the person having them bothers to stick around our blog or will listen to what we really meant) but sometimes we don’t get the chance – or the other person closes their minds to us.

Ultimately, we need to realise that misunderstandings in blogland are easy to make and we should behave accordingly, and that it is important we understand ourselves and what we are trying to say and say it as clearly and precisely and consistently as we are currently able to do, while retaining the essence of our own integrity and personality.

And it is also quite vital for us all to retain a sense of humour

And Love!

Are you SURE you don’t want to give me your bank details so i can send the $50 Mand? I promise i won’t sell tell it to anyone else! Honest injun.

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Joanna is okay with it as long as I don’t mention personal information (address, ssn, credit card numbers, etc.). Again, she probably wouldn’t be happy if I started sharing all our struggles (not that we have any, we’re perfect). But, she doesn’t mind when I praise her

Tawny: i think Tracie (see above comments) has observed some of the same stuff in my blog as well. there’s a part of me that just comes out in this that might not come out in my everyday conversations…. but, if you sat down with me long enough, this that i share in my blog is the type of pensive/goofy thoughts that would come out.