Improving Communication Among Working Couples

Most people have never learned how to communicate. Without this skill, a person is handicapped in an intimate relationship. Without being able to express themselves and listen to another, partners cannot achieve intimacy.

By developing your communication skills, you and your partner will be able to establish and preserve a loving, respectful relationship between two people who love each other yet find much lesser time to spend together due to respective careers.

Open, honest, and positive communication is the solid groundwork for which you can build a healthy and happy relationship upon. Ultimately, many arguments and disagreements between couples evolve from a lack of good communication skills in the couple’s repertoire.

Couples often resort to arguing and bickering back and forth, where nothing ever gets resolved and neither partner is satisfied. It is important atleast one of you backs down and assess the situation which would help in approaching the problem in a more positive way.

Due to individual and respective professional careers eating into your ‘to-gether’ time, the one thing that is badly affected is your communication.

As you spend more time apart than together, the communication gap is bound to stretch and affect your relationship. This is where one has to show maturity in dealing with the delicate situation by making sure each of you makes certain time of week for you partner and spend some intimate and quality time bridging the gap and getting to know each other well.

Listen
The best relationships rely solely on good communication, which in turn rely heavily on listening. Both the partners cant keep talking, on has to listen while the other talks. This is important as single person talking all the time will eventually impact the relationship negatively. You have to give our ears to your partner and show how much you care.

Express
It does not come naturally to everyone when it comes to expressing their thoughts and feelings to their partners. You have to make some effort initially before it gets easy and natural. It is time you start talking as much as you have been listening. To start with you can choose to just talk about your day or some incident that happened at your workplace etc.

Honesty
Communication with your partner will have no value or importance if you are not honest in expressing your thoughts and feelings. Hence, it is important you stay honest and speak out the truth no matter how hard it may be. Things stay a lot simple and uncomplicated when there are no secrets and lies in a relationship. Last thing you need is unwanted surprises that would have gone down unnoticed had it been openly discussed earlier.

Focus
May times a simple conversation can turn into a dreadful confrontation leading to arguments. It is important for each partner to focus and listen to their partners talk carefully. If it is boring or not interesting to your taste, you can politely ask your partner to talk about something else reasoning it.

Respect and support
Most arguments and fights in a marriage happened due to lack of respect. Sometimes on might feel intimidated or inferior due to lagging career that might make them feel so. It is important to respect each other and support each other in life and career moving forward.