Sometimes you need specific rules to make sure that you’re each being heard by the other partner. That’s where the Speaker/Listener technique comes in handy. Used by many marriage educators to help smooth conflict, the Speaker/Listener technique provides couples with guidelines on how to communicate successfully. The rules for this technique aren’t hard. “Eventually, you [...]
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Enrich our Marriages, Telling it like it is part 3
November 13, 2008Be specific — avoid generalisations Words like “never” and “always” are usually not true (I was tempted to say “are never true”). When a wife says to her husband, “You never show me any affection,” she is leaving herself wide open to being proved incorrect, because the husband will probably remind her that several weeks [...]
