Sunday, January 31, 2010

Effective Ways Of Talking For Fixing Relationship Trouble

By Roxann Roman

When you are experiencing relationship trouble everything can seem like a huge mountain to climb, river to cross, and a heaping bag of coal to carry. It's tiring and it seems like it might cause you a little pain to work it out. The key to solving relationship issues is really learning how to successfully communicate for the betterment of your both. A rocky relationship that might not last can still offer you the chance to better yourself if you learn how to effectively communicate. Later, you will become a much better partner to either your current or future significant other.

Honesty is not so easy. Many of us spend a great deal of time lying to ourselves and therefore we can not always be honest with our significant other. When we aren't being honest we most often will blame them for the way we feel, regardless of whether we have ever felt this way before in our lives. Your partner is most likely nothing more than a catalyst to setting off your feelings on a topic.

Sexual issues are often the most common issue that comes in between a couple. The threat of the termination of the relationship is often not enough to get couples talking honestly about their sex life. Because one partner wants sex more often than the other partner it can be a topic that leads to a lot of harsh feelings.

When there is a constant need for one partner to be sexually intimate and the other partner is much less interested the potential for hurt feeling is rather enormous. Resentment, distrust, and anger can stem from both parties if the issue isn't handled early. Turning feelings into sexual pressure tends to mean a lot less sexual interaction rather than more.

Sexual issues are not the only form of relationship trouble and it is quite possible that you can experience things like financial, social, parental, or even household differences that cause serious issues when they are left untended. Reaching a new common ground with every issue requires honesty, and that can feel almost impossible.

The easy thing to say is to improve the way you communicate. Of course, better communication will always lead to better understanding. Practicing good listening skills and realizing when you are not actually being attacked can be a good footing for better talking.

When you create a scenario that keeps everyone responsible for their own feelings and behaviors your communication process is easier and more honest. We tend to actually create our own emotions and then blame someone else for them. We think things, even in the briefest of moments, that create our feelings.

Dealing with relationship trouble involves being able to strip away all of the junk that we tend to clutter up around our emotions and give each other the respect of honesty. If you can't be honest with yourself and your partner there isn't much that is going to get better in the future. The more you learn to be honest without being cruel the more your communication efforts will pay off. This is usually the role of a therapist in couples counseling. They become someone who creates accountability for honesty when communicating. If you can learn to do that for yourself you are way ahead of the game.

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