Communication

Recently I have noticed that communication can be a tricky thing. You say one thing to somebody and they take it completely different then what you intended. I see this happen every day and it is something that I am trying to get better at all the time.
I especially see it happen in my family. Oh my goodness...I get so frusterated because I see so clearly what one person is trying to say, but no one else can get past their own emotions to see it. I feel like the freakin' family psychiatrist. One person will almost always be having issues with someone or something in my family. Since I'm the youngest, I usually don't have any problems with anybody. So that kinda makes me the middle person. Everyone comes to vent to me about what's going on. I'm like "dude, just talk to them, because they have no idea what you're feeling." I mean nothing is going to get better by telling me about their hurts and feelings when the person they have issues with has no clue. Hmmm...I sometimes wonder if God placed me in this position in my family for a reason. I've thought about it and I really don't think I could handle being a psychiatrist. I would probably just end up crying with everybody because of all of the misunderstandings. I'm serious. I think that 97%% of conflict in relationships is the result of miscommunication and just not understanding.
Anyways, now that I've made my family to sound out super disfunctional, I should say that we aren't. I am so blessed to have such an amazing family that love each other enough to work out problems. That's the sad thing about society today. Husbands and wives don't have enough patience or love to work out the problems that confront them. The mentality is that everything needs to be quick and easy. But that's just not reality. I hope that society will wake up and save our foundation...the family.