Communicate Your Feelings (without Starting a Fight) What to Say and What Not to Say to Your Partner

This book spoke to many of the communication barriers my partner and I have experienced. -Amazon Customer Review

I have never been good with understanding feelings, let alone communicating them, but this book provides a groundwork for both of those processes! -Amazon Customer Review

There's no way around it--if you're in a relationship, both you and your partner are going to experience challenging feelings like anger, frustration, sadness, fear, and anxiety. The question is, when these feelings come up, will there be stressful fighting and isolation or deepening connection and growth?

For most of us, the ways we learned to handle our feelings were dysfunctional, defensive, and, ultimately, deadly to intimacy. You may even discover that you and your partner have been voicing your feelings in toxic, critical ways--stonewalling and isolating yourselves, too--without even realizing it. Instead of experiencing your relationship as a domestic battlefield or never-ending voyage of loneliness, what if it were an attachment of mutual emotional safety and connection?

Fortunately, the ability to communicate lovingly and effectively isn't inherent--it's a skill that can be learned. Use these simple, immediately applicable communication techniques as your building blocks to a happier, stronger relationship...