Let's Talk Communication (Page 3)

Amber Brooks

By: Amber Brooks

Editor: Lillian Castro

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Ever wondered why some couples just click so well? It’s most likely because they have such great communication. Just ask our experts. Learning to communicate your thoughts and concerns in the right way can do wonders for any relationship.

As it happens, our writers help educate readers to do just that. Below, you’ll learn to foster healthy communication and strengthen relationships through mutual understanding.

It’s time to mend the disconnect. By applying our advice, couples can better listen, respond, and resolve conflict. Whether you need active listening techniques or emotional regulation strategies, you’ll find the insights to help you build communication rooted in honesty and respect.

Here you can discover ways to overcome everything from misunderstandings to more sensitive subjects like sexual challenges. Our writers also explore communication in the digital world, giving readers insight into the best ways to strike up conversations online.

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What Our Experts Say:

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How to Handle Different Political Views in a Senior Relationship
April Braswell

April Braswell

Just because you’re a senior couple in love doesn’t mean the two of you have to hold the same political affiliations. But these differences need not tear you apart, either. A great example of a couple at political odds of each other is James Carville and Mary Matalin. They've been showing people how it’s done since 1993. If you’re a senior couple in a politically opposite relationship, read on to learn some...

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How to Get Along With Your Lesbian Girlfriend’s Parents
Pamela Gort

Pamela Gort

It’s not uncommon for people to have some difficulties when it comes to their in-laws. Having differences of opinion with a partner’s parents may seem like a no-win situation, and often people are so frustrated that they don’t know what to do. No wonder this is a hot topic for many people. The reality is that not every parent is excited about their daughter being in a lesbian relationship. It can be particularly...

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4 Ways to Improve Your Dating Communication Skills[updated_month_year before=" (" after=")"]
Hunt Ethridge

Hunt Ethridge

Our style of communication and social interaction was thrown for one gigantic loop over the past year, to say the least. We're all more cautious to go out, so we’ve been losing some of our social muscles. Like all muscles, social muscles need to be used to stay sharp, and if you’re only talking to your cat, you’re not getting the workout you normally do. What I hear most from my dating coaching clients is that it...

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How Can I Improve My Relationship Skills?
Hunt Ethridge

Hunt Ethridge

Relationships form the backbone of society, whether they're romantic, platonic, or professional. The definition of society is the “aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community.” If you’re in a community, you have relationships with others in that community. Sometimes whether you want to or not. Most relationship advice I give to my clients isn’t really even relationship advice. I just...

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Lovebox is a Sentimental Gift for Couples in a Long-Distance Relationship
Amber Brooks

Amber Brooks

The Short Version: Lovebox is a fun messaging device that has brought joy, laughter, and heart emojis to people around the world. Couples in long-distance relationships can use Lovebox to keep in touch and enjoy having their own special way of communication. The Lovebox heart spins to notify your loved a message from you has arrived, and a person can spin the heart in the opposite direction to send you a shower of...

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How to Get on the Same Page as Your Date About COVID-19 Safety
Rachel Dack

Rachel Dack

If your goal is to continue to go on dates during the pandemic, but you’re feeling anxious about your safety, know you can take action to get on the same page with your date and stay as safe as possible. While it may be a change to the way you date, the coronavirus pandemic is motivating people to share information, ask questions, and discuss topics that are not normally on the table in early stages of dating....

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What Are the Things Every Relationship Needs?
Hunt Ethridge

Hunt Ethridge

People say relationships are work, and I agree with them. But it doesn’t have to be hard or difficult work. Anything worth doing right is worth putting some time and work into it. I couldn’t build furniture if I didn’t spend countless hours in the shop, making countless mistakes. I think the goal of relationships, of all kinds, is to make each other feel good. Sometimes we get lazy, and sometimes we’re not sure...

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4 Tips for Maintaining a Relationship After Having a Baby
Hunt Ethridge

Hunt Ethridge

Let me start off this article by sharing that on March 2 my second daughter was born. When my wife and I left the hospital on March 5, the second case of coronavirus in New Jersey arrived at the very same hospital. Ten days later, the world shut down, so there I was with my wife, a newborn, and a toddler in quarantine. I only share this so you know that I am intimately knowledgeable on maintaining a relationship...

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How Do I Know When My Senior Relationship is Over, And What Can I Do About It?
April Braswell

April Braswell

If you're in a senior relationship and you've hit a point where you think it's over, you're not alone. The divorce rate for those in their 50s is 1 in 4, according to Susan Brown, Ph.D., author of "The Gray Divorce Revolution." If you don’t want to be another statistic, here's a road map to rescue your senior relationship. Reflect on the Love You Felt When You First Got Together First things first, reflect...

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How Do You “Friend Zone” Someone? 5 Nice Ways
Hunt Ethridge

Hunt Ethridge

Many of us have been there. You’re hanging out with friends and making jokes, and one of the women in the group says something flirty to you. It seems like she's making a play for you. Unfortunately, you don’t feel the same. We hear a lot about the friend zone when it comes to an amorous man talking to an uninterested woman, but the reverse happens as well. If you're in this situation, you want your brush-off...

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Relish is a Highly Rated Relationship Training App That Brings Couples Closer Together
Amber Brooks

Amber Brooks

The Short Version: The Relish app is a supportive resource for couples who want to create a lasting love. The app uses personality quizzes, customized lesson plans, and one-on-one coaching to help couples learn about each other and work on their relationship. Since its launch in 2018, Relish has mentored couples from all walks of life, and its experienced coaches have taught them effective strategies to foster...

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5 Strategies to Thrive in Your Relationship or Marriage During COVID-19
Rachel Dack

Rachel Dack

Even the happiest of couples are finding themselves in new relationship territory as social distancing and orders to shelter in place continue due to COVID-19. Since the option to engage in a social life and activities outside of the house has been eliminated, couples are faced with potentially endless time together and new areas of conflict. Living with your partner while experiencing the heightened anxiety of the...

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First Things First™ Offers Resources, Counseling, and Events to Help People Develop Better Relationships at All Stages of Life
Amber Brooks

Amber Brooks

The Short Version: The goal of First Things First is to help create healthy relationships. The nonprofit works with many people who may not have developed those connections early in their lives. Through its premarital, marriage, and parenting courses, First Things First encourages participants to learn and build those skills. The organization offers online courses for young adults and established couples on how to...

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Gay Relationships 101: 4 Things to Know If It’s Your First
Mason Glenn

Mason Glenn

I revel in the confines of a relationship, and tons of other people do, too. Some of us are just genuinely more excited to be in a relationship than to be single. However, I understand this mindset can easily be viewed as mundane. Whether you are brand new to the gay dating world, or maybe it's been forever since you were linked with someone romantically, there are some really important things to consider in...

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How to Save My Lesbian Marriage (3 Tips From a Love Coach)
Dr. Frankie Bashan

Dr. Frankie Bashan

After your wife gets up to use the restroom, you find yourself feeling an unexpected sense of relief. Until that moment, you had not noticed that the time you two were spending together had become so tense. As you glance around the restaurant, your eyes wander to people at other tables. You see a young couple sitting close to one another, oblivious to the rest of the world. You see a large group of friends, all...

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MarriageHelper™ Promotes Relationship Assessments & Coaching Resources to Strengthen Marriages Worldwide
Amber Brooks

Amber Brooks

The Short Version: MarriageHelper offers a support system for men and women hoping to grow, fix, or rebuild their marriage. Since 2011, this team of experienced counselors have rallied behind married couples and given them the tools to strengthen the commitment they made on the day they wed. MarriageHelper has created couples workshops and marriage articles that deal with a wide range of relationship issues,...

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3 Gay Dating Texting Tips (From an Expert)
Mason Glenn

Mason Glenn

Let’s face it: We’re living in a technological world. Sometimes I wish we could rewind time to the meet-cutes of yesteryear and run into someone interesting and dateworthy while we’re waiting for our morning brew at the coffee shop. Instead, a growing number of people are meeting on online dating sites, and their initial social contact is often a text message. Unfortunately, texting has created an expectation of...

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How to Stop Fighting With Your Boyfriend (3 Tips for the Holiday Season)
Mason Glenn

Mason Glenn

The holiday season is the ultimate test of a balancing act when it comes to your family, friends, and partners. Studies show that there’s a slight jump in online dating activity during these end-of-the-year months. This is attributed to what is called the “cuffing season,” a tendency among singles toward adopting a more domestic mindset during the winter months. To be fair, I think this hypothesis can really...

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Why Won’t My Girlfriend Have Sex With Me?
Dr. Frankie Bashan

Dr. Frankie Bashan

My guess is that, if you're reading this article, then you're probably not getting much love and affection from your girlfriend these days. Long gone are the days when you could barely keep your hands off each other. You know... those times when going to bed meant way more than just getting a good night of sleep. Are you sitting there wondering what happened to the hot and steamy nights you two used to have? Are...

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How to Stop Fighting With Your Boyfriend
Rachel Dack

Rachel Dack

All couples experience some level of conflict. In fact, eliminating conflict altogether is not the goal in healthy, satisfying romantic relationships as conflict is unavoidable. What matters most is how conflict is managed and resolved. How you handle uncomfortable feelings, disagreements, and differing opinions, preferences, and desires, as well as how you behave during contentious times, determines whether you...

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How to Fix a Broken Relationship (LGBT Advice)
Dr. Frankie Bashan

Dr. Frankie Bashan

No relationship is perfect. If two people stay together long enough, they're bound to face times of struggle or periods when things just feel "off." However, for some couples, there comes a time when a relationship has turned into something that is so strained and difficult that one or both people may be thinking about leaving. Some couples who find themselves in these situations are able to get their...

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7 Signs You’re Falling Out of Love (LGBT Advice)
Mason Glenn

Mason Glenn

When you're in the honeymoon phase of a relationship, everything is so exciting because you’re getting to know someone, and no one can do any wrong. As time passes, you may start entering into the commitment stage, and then you start seeing if your partner’s habits are something you can deal with for the long term. Let’s identify seven of those key qualities that can cause someone to fall out of love. 1. You...

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9 Best Online Dating Conversation Starters
Julie Spira

Julie Spira

Standing out in the crowded digital playground of dating apps can be challenging, even for the most tech-savvy singles with the best photos and a profile penned by a professional writer. Research from sociologists at Stanford University and the University of New Mexico shows that couples today are meeting most often online — to the tune of almost double the rate (39%) of those being introduced by friends...

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The Couples Institute Has Been Healing Relationships and Educating Therapists to Create Stronger Bonds Since 1984
Hayley Matthews

Hayley Matthews

The Short Version: Married therapists Dr. Pete Pearson and Dr. Ellyn Bader wanted to find a way to work together every day, so they decided to lean on their expertise and focus on couples counseling by founding The Couples Institute in 1984. Pete and Ellyn have not only worked with thousands of clients over the decades, but they also expanded the practice to train other counselors around the world. Now, The Couples...

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13 Best Love Messages for Her (Sweet, Deep & Hot)
Hunt Ethridge

Hunt Ethridge

Being in a relationship is awesome. You get to listen, talk, laugh, tease, cuddle, and touch. However, you’re probably not always around your significant other as much as you'd like to be, so it’s nice to remind her how you feel about her. Flowers are great, and they signify that you were thinking of her and wanted to get something unexpected to show her how much she means to you. However, what I really like are...

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Marriage Counselor Suntia Smith Inspires Individuals & Couples to Maintain Healthy Personal Relationships
Amber Brooks

Amber Brooks

The Scoop: As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Suntia Smith has spent many years helping people overcome personal challenges, and she has seen that relationship challenges often cut the deepest. Suntia became a marriage counselor to ease the burden on clients who don't know where their relationships are going wrong. She gives practical advice to empower her clients to change their negative mindsets and habits....

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How to Tell Your Partner You Want Space — 6 Tips From an Expert
Hunt Ethridge

Hunt Ethridge

One of the things I explain to my clients and audiences during conferences is that there are three entities in any relationship: you, me and us. Each of those entities needs nurturing to grow. If everything is always about you, it can’t be healthy. If everything needs to be about her, it’s not going to go well. If the “us” takes over and both of you lose your own identity, that can be problematic as well. It's...

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How to Fix a Broken Relationship: An Expert’s 10 Tips
Rachel Dack

Rachel Dack

Every couple will likely encounter challenges in their relationship, and, in many cases, they will find happy resolutions to their differences. However, according to research conducted by Dr. John Gottman, an American psychological researcher who studies marital stability,69% of problems in relationships are unresolvable. Having different personality traits is an example of one of these problems (i.e. if you're an...

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10 Questions to Ask Your Boyfriend (Before Getting Serious)
Rachel Dack

Rachel Dack

In the early stages of a relationship, you may feel eager to see where things go. You may find yourself wanting to ensure you're on the same page without appearing as if you're in a rush for information. Healthy communication that progresses over time (think layers!) allows you to determine if your growing relationship can go the distance. Awareness makes all the difference, especially if you're contemplating...

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Relationships Australia NSW™ Helps Couples, Families, and Communities Build Stronger Bonds Through Counseling and Education
Hayley Matthews

Hayley Matthews

The Short Version: Disagreements and traumatic events can rip at the seams of relationships, and those couples often yearn to feel loved and supported as they navigate those issues. Relationships Australia New South Wales (NSW) is a nonprofit organization that helps couples and families work through their challenges and stay connected. Experts from Relationships Australia NSW offer therapy, counseling, and...

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Amber Brooks

By: Amber Brooks

Editor-in-Chief

Amber Brooks is the Editor-in-Chief at DatingAdvice.com. When she was growing up, her family teased her for being "boy crazy," but she preferred to think of herself as a budding dating and relationship expert. As an English major at the University of Florida, Amber honed her communication skills to write clearly, knowledgeably, and passionately about a variety of subjects. Now with over 1,800 lifestyle articles to her name, Amber brings her tireless wit and relatable experiences to DatingAdvice.com. She has been quoted by the Washington Times, Cosmopolitan, The New York Post, and AskMen, among others.

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