Pagsasama-sama lamang
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What do you think?
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What's the secret to your lasting marriage?
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A lot.
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I would say food.
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Having lots of fun together.
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Being able to communicate,
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negotiate.
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Communication and dating.
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Lots of money and good sex.
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That too.
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You need some intellectual companionship,
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fluttering of the heart,
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tingling of the spine.
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Understanding and compromise.
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Good communication.
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Communication.
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Yeah, I would take communication.
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Understanding each other's point of view.
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The secret is communication.
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I think communication is key,
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dude. Talking,
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communicating.
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I mean,
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it's a big mystery,
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actually.
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It's definitely good romance.
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If you don't communicate,
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you don't know what the other thinks.
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You can't think about what each other is thinking.
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You have to talk to each other.
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When you don't know that...
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It's the beginning of the problem.
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We
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all have a deep desire for a close connection with another person.
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This is one of our most fundamental human needs.
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But a close connection in marriage will only be achieved where there's
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good communication.
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Nicky and I had been dating for about five months when he went away traveling,
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backpacking in Africa while I had to stay in the UK and finish
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my school exams.
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And this was in the days well before mobile phones and the internet.
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So we had to write letters to each other all through that
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time to stay connected.
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And even though we were apart for six months,
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it was an incredibly important part of our growing closer.
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We learnt so much about each other as we shared our innermost thoughts,
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our ideas,
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our dreams and especially our feelings in those letters.
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The strange thing was when we were both back in the same country but
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in different cities,
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Scylla was in London,
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I was at university in another city,
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we really struggled in our communication as we had to rely
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on public phones.
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So I was sharing a house with three other girls and the phone was right
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at the bottom of the stairs.
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And there was this steady traffic of people going up and down,
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overhearing everything I said every time I rang Nicky.
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And I knew Nicky was longing to hear me say all kinds
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of intimate things,
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like I loved him,
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I was missing him.
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But that would have been far too embarrassing to say out loud with everybody
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going up and down.
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I,
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meanwhile...
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was speaking from a public phone box in the street and I
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was having to shove money into the box with this queue of other students forming
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outside and occasionally
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tapping their money on the glass if they thought that I was going on too long,
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which wasn't ideal while I was trying to have this romantic
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conversation with Scylla,
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telling her how much I loved her and only getting quite perfunctory
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answers from her.
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So we regularly ended up those conversations with
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either one or both of us feeling misunderstood,
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upset and disconnected.
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And learning to communicate effectively is something Nikki and I
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have had to learn ourselves and go on learning throughout our
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marriage in order to stay closely connected.
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Take seven.
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Phones have really changed the dynamic of how you interact
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because they're around all the time.
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I would say if there's one area where bickering continues,
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it's via text message.
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Text message bickering is the worst bickering because it's so easy to misinterpret
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what someone else is saying.
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Like the other day,
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I was late coming home from work.
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I was in the back of the car.
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You gave me the ETA,
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the estimated time of arrival.
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I gave him the ETA before we hit traffic.
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And I think it was 6 .15 or 7 .15 or whatever time it was.
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It was 6 .12.
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And at 6 .15,
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he's still not home.
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Yeah, so she texted.
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Well, the text message was,
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you should have told me you were late.
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And I should have gotten the text at 612,
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right?
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611.
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611.
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When you were going to miss it.
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I think the problem with text messages is you don't understand the context the other person is
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in when they're sending it.
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And you don't understand the context the other person is in when they're receiving it.
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So you have no idea.
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I have screaming kids.
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I'm exhausted.
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He was supposed to be home early.
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You know,
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you're really both pulling your hair out,
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but you can't see the other person.
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And I do think that...
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That screen of technology where you can't see the other person and you don't
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know what they're going through is very hard to not be mean on
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text. Out of that,
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I've sort of now put in my frame of reference,
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if I can't end the text message without a kissy face emoji,
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I probably should not be sending it to my wife.
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Close
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connection in marriage has a lot to do with the level at which we communicate
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with each other.
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There are broadly three levels.
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Level one communication is about facts,
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passing on information at a superficial level,
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such as it's raining,
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the train's late,
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we've gone into overdraft.
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That creates a...
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Weak connection.
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Level two is a deeper level of communication and stronger connection
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and represents sharing our ideas,
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our opinions.
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For example,
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I think the government should do more to protect the environment.
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Or I think you should look for a better paid job.
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Or I think we should spend time at home with the children this weekend instead of
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going away.
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Level three is the deepest level of communication.
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This is around our emotions,
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our feelings.
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When we say,
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I felt hurt by what your mother said yesterday,
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or it meant so much to me when you spent time listening to me
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about that difficult time at work,
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or I'm feeling frightened that we're not going to be able to pay off our debt,
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or I need you to tell me that I'm doing okay.
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And that's when we're talking about what's going on inside us,
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when we're talking about our deepest needs.
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And that takes a degree of vulnerability and trust.
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We don't communicate at that level with just anyone,
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but it's essential.
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We communicate like this with our partner because that's how we
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build good connection and deep intimacy.
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My wife,
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Dan, and I have been made a long time.
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It seems an awfully long time.
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The truth is,
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it's getting on a half a century.
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You can't be mad that long without going through tough times.
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And we've been through tough times.
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I think we've been through times where it seemed that it
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was all over.
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I remember some years ago,
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the kids were small.
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I was busy in the law practice.
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And Dan said to me one day,
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darling, I'm not sure we're going to make it.
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And it was an incredible shock to me.
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And I said,
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what do you mean?
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She said, well, you're so busy,
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we don't have time even to talk together.
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See,
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sometimes when we live busy lives,
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we say yes to the whole world,
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but no to those for whom we have primary responsibility.
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And I remember cancelling engagement after engagement,
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and we spent long winter evenings in front of
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a fire, talking.
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We talked about me being just too busy.
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We talked about...
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our sex relationship,
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we talked about money,
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and it was jolly hard work.
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But as we talked,
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we began to warm towards each other and understand each other.
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And it wasn't just words.
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Diane would say to me often,
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when you do that,
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it's how I feel.
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And it was like a light bulb going on in my mind,
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but I well remember those winter evenings.
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Of course,
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communication is two -way.
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Effective communication is always dynamic.
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It involves talking and listening.
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It requires a response from the other person.
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There's an ongoing flow and interchange.
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And in marriage,
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our aim has to be to listen twice as much as we talk.
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And communication that's deep and personal is multi -layered.
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It's not just about words.
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It involves the warmth of our voice.
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It involves our gestures.
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It involves how and when we touch each other.
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For example,
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putting an arm around our partner when they're upset.
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And it involves our body language.
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Facing our partner when they're telling us something important and looking them
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in the eye, show we're interested in and listening to what they're saying.
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When we combine this responsive body language,
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an engaging tone of voice and talking about our thoughts and feelings,
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we create deep connection with our partner.
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We all have that longing deep inside us to be known by
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another person,
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to be heard and understood.
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But that's not automatic in a marriage.
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An article in a Sunday newspaper described the breakup of a celebrity marriage.
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And it quoted the husband as saying,
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when we went to marriage counseling,
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I was shocked to find we'd never really talked.
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I heard my wife telling a complete stranger about feelings I
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never knew existed,
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and I heard myself doing the same.
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We could only communicate through a stranger.
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Two people can be living in the same house,
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sleeping in the same bed,
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yet if they don't communicate at the level of their feelings,
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they can be like strangers towards each other.
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We've been married for 20
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years.
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No,
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it's more than 20 years,
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isn't it? Coming up to 22 years.
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And we have three children and a dog.
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Yeah, yeah.
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I was in the police for 15 years.
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That's where we met.
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I joined a department called SCD10,
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where I became an undercover police officer.
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I wouldn't talk about my work at all.
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So I thought the way to deal with my family was to protect Liz from all
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the stuff I would see,
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the murder scenes I'd go to.
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So when I got home and Liz said,
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how's your day?
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I'd go, yeah, fine.
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This is when it all started to unravel.
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And we went on like this,
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not communicating at all,
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really.
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But it was all...
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all simmering underneath,
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this lack of communication and lack of understanding of
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each other.
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And so the pressures of work,
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the pressures of my lifestyle,
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the pressures of our marriage status,
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we were just about to explode.
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And then,
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following the death of my sister and different stuff,
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my heart went in spasm and having a heart attack and got
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taken into hospital.
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And the one good thing that I was ever any good at was being a policeman.
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And I couldn't do any more.
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And it crushed me.
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That's when we decided in St.
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George's Hospital,
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Tooting, to firm up our separation.
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We separated and moved in with my mum and dad,
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and Liz stayed in the family home opposite her mum and dad.
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And they hit rock bottom,
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couldn't even breathe,
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contemplating,
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ended it all.
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Liz came round and knocked on the door and said,
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I still love the man I've married,
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and I'm here until you find yourself again.
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And from that
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moment, we started falling in love again.
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We learnt...
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through that time that we really needed to work
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on our marriage.
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I think it's been a process of us learning how to communicate
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deeply,
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not on the surface level.
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It's actually that dedicated time to being present that really changed.
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I think it was gradual,
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but I think it was putting space in the diary and making
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sure that we kept on doing it.
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Quite often,
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even now, we find ourselves saying,
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just stopping for a moment and saying,
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We don't feel we've connected for a few days.
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We need to connect and we can recognise
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now that we're starting to go off.
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And we just need to,
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it doesn't take much.
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We just need to regroup and come back together.
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Every couple has to work out how to stay connected on a daily
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basis in whatever way works for them,
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whether that's through talking as they travel to work together,
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communicating by text,
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talking on the phone during the day,
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or catching up when they get home in the evening.
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Now, we're not saying this always has to be deep emotional stuff.
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And for some people,
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if they know that whenever their partner wants to talk,
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it's going to be intense,
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they'll avoid conversation.
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But unless we tell each other what's going on in our lives and what's
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uppermost in our minds,
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we can so quickly drift apart.
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It's only when another person understands us that they're really
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with us.
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Effective communication draws us together at an emotional
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level.
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We want you to turn in your journal to the first conversation,
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a significant memory.
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Spend one minute telling your partner about a happy or some other special
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memory, something that happened to you before you met each other.
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And as you're talking,
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be sure to express what you felt as you recall this memory.
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Don't just describe the facts.
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Then your partner should say back what they've just heard.
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And not just the information in a factual way,
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but reflecting the feelings that they've heard to show they've understood why
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it was so special for you.
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Then swap roles.
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We want to look now at the importance of talking in particular.
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I wonder if you've ever stopped to consider what you talk about most
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of the time.
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When Stella and I are busy and under pressure,
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we find we can easily slip into talking only about the mundane,
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practical details of life.
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For example, who needs the car that day,
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or what time we need to leave to get somewhere,
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or what shopping we need.
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And that's why date night is so important.
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This quality time that we've scheduled in when we can talk at a deeper
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level.
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And I only really feel connected to Nicky when we've had time
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to share our feelings with each other.
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But some of you may be like me and find talking about feelings
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doesn't come naturally to you.
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And that could be for a variety of reasons.
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For some people,
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their culture doesn't encourage them to talk about their own individual needs
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and longings.
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Or perhaps they never learned to talk about their opinions and feelings
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as they were growing up.
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Or they may have been taught to hide them.
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I grew up in a home where there are no feelings.
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There are facts,
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right?
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This happened or it did not happen.
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Like,
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it is black.
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black and white, but you get married and you don't realize that your
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spouse can look at the same set of facts and perceive them very,
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very differently.
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have a set of emotions or feel differently about them and I had I had no vocabulary
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whatsoever to deal with feelings at all like yeah I mean we actually
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did get help in our second year of marriage around feelings
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and conflict resolution because he hadn't really realized a
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lot of feeling words I think that's fair to say that you had to really almost
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kind of go through the list of words like
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Am I anxious?
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Am I fearful?
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Am I tired?
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Am I sad?
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I printed out a sheet of feelings words,
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and it was like,
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let's go through the list of feelings words.
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Are you feeling this?
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Are you feeling this?
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What does this mean?
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And it was a whole realm of relationship that I had never
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realized.
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existed before.
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I think I'm quite in tune with how I feel.
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And you have an excellent vocabulary.
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And I have a pretty good vocabulary and so I have to be a lot more
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explicit than I would be with a girlfriend.
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Like, I have to talk to you about my feelings.
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You know,
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I wouldn't say that to a girlfriend.
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I would just say to a girlfriend,
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oh, I was really frustrated about what happened.
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And they would just kind of automatically jump into,
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you must have felt so annoyed or you must have been so frustrated.
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And with him, I'm like,
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I'm going to talk to you now about feelings.
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And you need to listen to them.
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I remember wanting him to come in and know I was upset.
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He did not have a clue.
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I mean, I would be like,
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I haven't talked to you.
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I'm upset.
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Well, that's not helpful.
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Now I say, I'm upset.
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You know,
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he can't read my mind.
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Flagging and being overt,
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I think, has helped us at least about,
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I really have a problem here and I need to resolve it.
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We've created a diagram that lists some other reasons
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why people find it difficult to express their feelings.
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Some think,
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I don't want to disturb the peace by saying what I really feel.
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Or they may think it's just too complicated or I may be misunderstood.
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Being on this course is about being in a safe
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place, a good place to overcome these barriers and to practice
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expressing your thoughts and feelings to your partner.
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But some people don't just find it difficult to express their feelings.
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They also find it hard to recognize what they're feeling in the first place.
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And if that's you,
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we want to encourage you that change is possible.
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In one of the continuing conversations following this session in your journal,
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we've created an exercise for those who find it hard to identify their
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emotions.
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It's designed to help you recognise what you're feeling at
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different times and in different situations throughout the day.
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It will take courage to begin to articulate these feelings
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to your partner if you're not used to communicating at this level.
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But we know many people who've changed dramatically and marriages
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that have become much closer as they've persisted.
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We have some friends called Nick and Alison who 25 years ago
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separated and whose story is just that.
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I remember it was just so easy for us to get into
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this place where we were saying a lot but not really
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communicating.
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I think I began to confide in my sisters and close
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friends rather than in my husband.
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This began subtly at first to drive a wedge
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between us.
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Yeah, our marriage collapsed because we failed to share our real feelings with one another.
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We came pretty much as close to divorce as it's possible to get.
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Yeah, and if you asked us what went wrong,
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I think we'd both have agreed it was our failure to communicate effectively
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with each other.
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Yeah, it's a long story,
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but after a pretty amazing turn of events...
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Things turn around and we made our minds up to give our marriage another chance.
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And today we are back together with,
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I think,
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a deeper understanding of what it takes to stay connected.
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When we got back together,
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I resolved not to have a thought life,
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which was secret from Nick.
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In the past,
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I used to dwell on the negative aspects of our relationship,
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but rarely voiced my feelings.
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It was like I was setting up a case against him without allowing
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him to defend himself.
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We've become much better at recognizing when one of us is like brooding
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over something and we persistently ask questions to get things out into the
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open. I tend to have more dramatic mood swings than Nick,
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and if I'm rather low,
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I find conversation difficult because I tend to shut down
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emotionally.
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And we have to work much harder during these times to keep
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real communication going.
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Nick said to us,
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All current wisdom on this subject stresses the importance of quality
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time being carved out of hectic schedules.
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But this,
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in my experience,
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only marks out the space.
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Effective communication must mean revealing all parts
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of our lives.
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In my case,
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the parts that I'm well practiced at keeping hidden.
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For me,
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at least, it requires more than time.
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So if you're married to someone who struggles to verbalize their feelings,
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they're likely to feel exposed and vulnerable when they first start
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to do so.
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So be sure to help them to feel safe,
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to open up.
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They need to know that you're not going to get angry and reject or blame them
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for what they reveal.
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Asking questions encourages them to say
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what they're feeling inside.
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My name is Sally.
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I originally come from Egypt.
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I'm Sami.
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My family were originally Egyptians.
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We were living in Sudan.
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I've met Sami when I was 14 and he was a bit older.
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She was so attracting her personality in terms of
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just being herself.
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Simple,
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not complicated,
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which I like that from day one.
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One of the things that would really hurt me is when Sammy says,

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