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Verbal Intercourse: A Darkly Humorous Novel of Interpersonal Couples and Family Communication
Verbal Intercourse A Darkly Humorous Novel of Interpersonal Couples and Family Communication Author:Anne Hart Humor is found in every kind of family if we look close enough at the family?s verbal intercourse. When men and women communicate with each other, its through the convergence of lifestyle and workstyle, of habit and patterns, of performance and ritual. It?s a rite of passage to write about verbal intercourse. It?s a biological, personality-orien... more »ted way of communicating that reveals our physiological responses. We roll our eyes in contempt, make gestures, use body language to intimidate or make someone feel important and good about himself. In short, the way husbands and wives communicate between themselves that shortens or lengthens their healthy days. It?s the way the children observe their words and gestures. It?s about the effect verbal intercourse has on the person communited to through words, looks, and body language. For the wife who says her husband doesn?t listen or doesn?t talk, for the husband who says his wife talks about the same thing over and over, and for the children who bank their patterns of verbal intercourse to spend on the next generation or to avoid, verbal intercourse is a convergence of lifestyles, body language, and words. No matter how dark the satire or comedy, verbal intercourse is hillarious, because to take life serious starts by laughing at the patterns in nature that seem to spiral into wedding rings and recurring seasons or patterns. We arrive full circle. By laughing at ourselves can we see the patterns of how we communicate with those who share our homes.« less