Getting Through – One of the Best Conversations You’ll Ever Have With Your Spouse
Ever notice how quickly a conversation between you and your spouse can go downhill with just a few poorly chosen words?
Are your conversations a war of words or a test of silence?
Now, there are ways to improve and restore great communication. The following shows how.
ONLY FOR MEN: John, a 43-year-old management consultant, and his wife Doris, a 39-year-old illustrator, are farther away due to communication problems. One day during a time of non-contradiction, John brought Doris aside and looked at him firmly, but gently, and asked him, “Doris, have I ever made you feel that you don’t deserve to listen?” With that, Doris’s eyes dropped attention to John’s attention and interest.
When his body language, more than his words, showed that he might have made him feel that way on many occasions, John insisted and said, “Doris, look at me, please. Just because I don’t know how …