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Strong Beliefs Marriage and Family 1) Karl Menninger once wrote that listening is more important than talking: here are various ways we can listen to others, not all of which are helpful to effective communication such as styles of poor listening which impede effective communication. The Fake, The Dependent Listener, The Interrupter, The Self-Conscious Listener, and the Intellectual Listener. The Faker is not really listening he/she is acting as if they’re listening; the faker does this to fool the talker into believing they have the full attention of the talker. While pretending to be listening they are thinking about something else or are so intent of a listener that they do not hear what is being said. For example a women’s husband to be, called off the marriage because when she shared her medical problem with him, he smile and nodded his head, she knew a that moment he had not been listing. She began to ask about other conversations and found he knew nothing about what was said. He had been faking all along. The Dependent Listener is a speaker pleaser. They are so worried about impressing the speaker that they are not listening and can’t respond appropriately, and may agree children, marriage, parenting, people, listening, listener, likely, having, fulfillment, family, because, about, work, skills, relationship, important, believe, age, speaker, personal, own, others, don’t, divorce, couples, concerned, approach, women, time, through, support, social, says, said