Let your family be the judge. We are probably not doing as well as we think. Statistics reveal trouble, according to a study that reports 50 percent of wives say their husbands don't communicate. Another study reports that 86 percent of divorces were fueled by deficient communication.
Communication is a complicated thing.
As the Lewis and Clark expedition pushed deeper into the continent, communication became more and more difficult. When they encountered the hostile Teton Sioux, they discovered that their best interpreter knew only a few simple words. As a result, understanding broke down and the expedition was almost exterminated. When Lewis made a vocabulary of the Hidatsa Indian language, a native speaker would say a word to Sacagawea. She was a Shoshone who understood Hidatsa, and she would pass it on in Shoshone to her French husband Charbonneau, who would pass it on in French to another Frenchman, who would translate it into English for Lewis.