A look onto the interpersonal relationship among a boyfriend and girlfriend is an intriguing affair that has been proven over time to involve a couple of factors that determine the route such a relationship takes. Most often the communication between the two has been said to involve many aspects of verbal communication.
Verbal communication actions in relationships have been argued as being naturally driven by the emotional attachments, which exist among the persons in a romantic relationship. Arguably, some researches have indicated that verbal communications could be considered as being deemed by most couples to be a representative of the most understandable form of communication, as compared to use of nonverbal messages. This is in consideration that most partners in a romantic relationship would highly respond to what is spoken out loudly to their partners in a positive or negative manner, and the response would be instantaneous.
Verbal cues happen to bear more usefulness when translating the emotional feelings, preferences, as well as the attitude of romantic partners. Verbal communication happens to contribute a significant and an indispensable role in the process of face-to-face interaction, which includes romantic relationships. Several arguments have been put forward to stress that without effective verbal communications many romantic relationships would never materialize. It has been established that whenever conflict manifests itself in a romantic relationship, there is a high likelihood for individuals to demonstrate negativity towards each other, which reduces significantly their positive communication chances. Examples of the positive communications that are affected include the persons listening behavior. An unhappy partner will tend to demonstrate poor and reduced nonverbal listening expressions as a mark of their dissatisfaction. On the contrary, partners in a happy relationship will tend to exhibit increased nonverbal communication behaviors, which would include touching, facial expressions, smiling, voice tone, as well as laughing with their partners among others. Such expressions have been shown as not to be dependent on the gender of the individual. In this case, therefore, nonverbal communication will be interfering with verbal communications which is not a desirable outcome in an interpersonal relationship among a boyfriend and girlfriend at that point.