Understanding Interracial Relationships

Series Summary

Effective communication skills are essential for building and maintaining successful relationships with family and coworkers. These skills are also key to managing new environments, people and situations. Interpersonal communication can be verbal or non-verbal, direct or passive and involves both one-to-many and one-to-one interactions. Most people trying to improve personal communication skills, however, do not do so for professional advancement or public speaking. We just want to understand those around us, get along better with the people we date, learn what makes the man or woman we love tick. Listening and figuring people out is a big part of communication and relationship success. In this free video series on communication and personal relationships, psychologist Reka Morvay teaches all about reading other people. Morvay offers tips on how to tell if someone is lying, tell-tale signs of manipulation in a relationship, why men and women play games, and how to fix a marriage. She gives clear advice from her years of education and experience in counseling in how to understand the male ego, how to talk to a guy about marriage, learning how a man thinks and more. Morvay even talks about body language, interracial couples, making a man commit and having healthy arguments.

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Reka Morvay, I'm a psychologist and I'm going to talk to you today about understanding interracial relationships. Interracial relationships may not be as unusual today as they were back in the 50's for example. Interracial couples still may face some difficulties from their family, from their friends, and from the social environment in general. So what are some of these difficulties, and how can you overcome them? For example, you have to be prepared that as an interracial couple, you will face some of these problems. Being naive and thinking that you will never encounter any of these will leave you unprepared for dealing with them when they do affect your relationship. How to deal with resistance for example from your partners family, this is a very sensitive issue and you need to be able to sit down and talk to your partner and try to anticipate whether or not this will be a problem in their family. Dealing with criticism from the general society, or being sensitive to the other person's culture, is also very important. We all come from different cultural backgrounds, and don't make the mistake of assuming that you understand the other person's background just because you have some information about their culture. Try to always be sensitive to the problems and difficulties that your partner might be facing."