Evaluation
                                  
                                  
                                   
          I feel that both Garrick and I demonstrated many
     
      of the interpersonal communication skills we learned 
     during this semester.  A communicating skill we both
     effectively possessed, was our ability to volunteer
     free information.  We were good listeners and attended
     to one another's ideas and messages well.  In
     particular, I feel my greatest strength is the ability
     to initiate conversations by using open ended questions
     and free information.  Over all, our major strength in
     our dyadic encounter, was our enthusiasm  and
     willingness to put forth the effort needed to
     effectively communicate.  The reason I feel strongly
     about this is due to initial experience in which my
     first partner showed no enthusiasm or willingness to
     put forth effort.
          The weaknesses we encountered involved
     distractions.  The encounter was distracted and
     distanced when a third party, my boyfriend, entered the
     dyad, making the situation tense.  This, coupled with
     our finding out that Garrick is 19 and I am 26 years
     old, seemed to constrict the progression of the
     
     
     
     
     
     
     relationship.  Debilitative emotions prevented Garrick
     and myself from progressing in the intimate manner we
     had previously.  
          The encounter went very well considering the
     limited time constraint we were given.  For a
     relationship to reach its' optimum potential, it takes
     many years of interpersonal dyadic-encounters, which is
     an infinent, never ending process.