Abstract
This essay discusses the frequently disregarded relationship of brother and sister. Despite the growing interest in family communication, the sibling tie remains an understudied relationship (C. Fowler 2009). Researchers have, however, argued that sibling relationships deserve greater attention for several reasons (C. Fowler 2009). With this creditable research, I have been able to make more since my own brothers and mine relationship. The interpersonal communication motives (ICM) model is rooted in Schultz’s belief that interaction is motivated by interpersonal needs, and out of these six motives, three of them corresponded with Shultz’s belief that interaction is motivated by needs for affection, inclusion, and control (C. Folwer 2009). These interpersonal needs, along with the other three, will display the importance and bond that a brother and sister can hold and withstand through most everything.
The Family Anomaly: Exemplifying Interpersonal Needs Motives
What is a sister or a brother- are such relationships born, or made? What are the possibilities and practices of love and care alongside hate, rivalry and indifference between sisters and brothers? Some feel close to their sisters and brothers. Others with fairly bland ties or little significant emotional resonance between them feel greater connection and attachment towards friends or other kin than to their siblings. Some may have a fairly fraught relationship, characterized by conflict, but this does not make necessarily represent a destructive situation in need of intervention from parents or experts. At the heart of all relationships between siblings - of whatever quality - lie issues of identity and relationality. Lateral ties with sisters and brothers form part of many siblings form part of many children’s lives from their early years, as much as vertical bonds to their parents. Their siblings form an important part of who they are, their relationship with people, and their place in the social world.
Individualized trust is operationalized as the process of holding favorable impressions about another person's behaviors when the outcome of the situation, which is dependent on this person's behaviors, is uncertain. Sibling trust is associated with communication behaviors such as verbal aggressiveness (Scott A. Myers 1998). Walking into a house of fighting brothers was something I was definitely used to, but there was an odd tension in the air that day. I laid my stuff down by the door and proceeded up the stairs to find an unusual sight. Like I said, I was used to seeing my brothers fight, but never had I seen my dad watching and not take an action to make it stop. I walked towards my dad standing outside his bedroom, tears falling down his face as my oldest brother, Daniel, had my second oldest brother, Andrew, pinned to the floor. The words flying out of Andrew’s mouth were unheard of, every filthy world you can imagine. As he would stand up to fight back, Daniel would just throw him to the ground again. I repeatedly asked my dad what was going on and why he was not stopping Daniel, but the only sounds coming from him were soft cries. Behind these cries were much louder sounds; Andrew falling and hitting his head on the bedpost, locking the door for Daniel to knock down, pushing window screens out in an attempt to jump out the window. Never had I ever seen Andrew this bad. Before my dad and Daniel took Andrew to the hospital against his will, they explained to me that Andrew was on a great amount of drugs that caused him to outrage like that. My brother had and still has a major drug addiction to anything and everything he can get his hands on. He spent three months in Peachford Drug Rehabilitation Center, but unfortunately, his addiction continued to control him after he was released. He did not want to get better; he enjoyed the life he
