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The Magical Ingredient to Good Communication


© Jane James
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Aug 12, 2004


And I, in turn, am working on remembering to acknowledge the children. Where my husband has a habit of not acknowledging me, I have had a tendency to forget to acknowledge the kids. They are much happier when they know I have heard them!

The next time you find yourself in an angry conversation with your spouse, take a look and see if the acknowledgements are happening, or if one (or both) of you are forgetting the secret ingredient.

It's Magic!

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3.   Aug 21, 2004 1:22 PM
It's easy for a man to feel that "communication" is a woman's home turf, and any time he ventures out there he's going to get wasted, or as one of my kids said years ago, "burned, fried, and set aside ...

-- posted by Dan_Ellsworth
2.   Aug 15, 2004 12:17 AM
...so deceptively easy, yet a territory fraught with landmines and booby traps. Thank you for an excellent article that will at least diffuse some of the verbal granades waiting to explode! ...

-- posted by Zanzi
1.   Aug 12, 2004 11:52 AM
I've been married 40 years and really know how to get the message across!

-- posted by jerrib



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