Relationship messages are always the most important element in communication. Metacommunication is communication about communication. The relational aspect of interaction is known as metacommunication. Being able to interpret both of these aspects is essential in understanding something that a communicator said. Content is the report or what is said verbally. Relationship is the command part of the message or how it is non-verbally said. This information is based on how the speaker wants to be understood and how he himself sees his relation to the receiver of information.

Every communication has a content and relationship aspect such that the latter classifies the former and is therefore a metacommunication: All communication includes, apart from the plain meaning of words, more information.

Even facial expressions, digital communication, and being silent can be analyzed as communication by a receiver. Examples of symptom strategy are sleepiness, headaches, and drunkenness.

'Symptom strategy' is ascribing our silence to something beyond our control and makes no communication impossible. Even if communication is being avoided (such as the unconscious use of non-verbals or symptom strategy), that is a form of communication.

Because behavior does not have a counterpart (there is no anti-behavior), it is impossible not to communicate. One cannot not communicate: Every behavior is a form of communication.Watzlawick, Beavin Bavelas and Jackson support these axioms to maintain family homeostasis.

3d toddlercon rapidshare