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Being close to spouse doesn't help communicability
Updated On: 24 January, 2011 12:06 PM IST | | Agencies
If your spouse does not understand you, the simple explanation is that you are too close to him.
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If your spouse does not understand you, the simple explanation is that you are too close to him. 
Psychologists believe that when two people know each other too well they assume too much shared knowledge. Their language becomes dangerously ambiguous. This "closeness communication bias" can lead to long term misunderstandings, rows and even relationship problems, they believe, the journal of Experimental Social Psychology reports.
The research by University of Chicago and Williams College in Massachusetts in the US, found that often couples and good friends communicate with each other no better than they do with strangers. Sometimes, they are clearer with strangers because they assume no common knowledge, according to the Telegraph.
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