Precious time is ticking away. Join me as I also try to daily redeem time in my marriage. We seem to think that if we can just speak loudly enough, we will be able to make them listen to us to understand us. We treat each other as if we are hard of hearing, deaf, or uncaring while the real problem is not understanding what is trying to be communicated.
People fail to understand what communication is.
It s not my agenda or my way. It s a willingness by husband and wife to become open, honest, and vulnerable, and yet at the same time remain totally committed to each other. Communication is understanding that the way you speak is influenced by who you are the way your husband hears is influenced by who he is. Your attempts to communicate are filtered through all sorts of extraneous material such as your childhood, your parents and the discipline they used, number of children in your family, financial position of family, and the part of the country you were reared in just to name a few. Communication is a skill that must be learned and practiced.