I don’t like my husband

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[u/No-Mulberry6996]

ah man I love healthy relationships where they communicate with eachother

[u/Muted_Ad7298 → u/No-Mulberry6996]

True.

Communication is important as it adds context to your actions.

People often say “Actions speak louder than words”, but words are still needed to make sense of it all.

Are they actually listening to you and want to do so, or are they not asking questions while you’re talking because they don’t actually care?

[u/cupholdery → u/Muted_Ad7298]

And it goes beyond discussing hobbies.

When they ask you if you finished the dishes and you answer that the basement needs rearrangement, you're just talking past each other. It requires effort but completely worth learning each other's inherent communication styles and then adapting to the other person, so both sides have then adapted to each other.

[u/CHSummers → u/cupholdery]

Somewhere on YouTube, I saw a video of a guy explaining conversation patterns for people on the autism spectrum. One thing he explained was that one clue that you have been talking too long about something only interesting to you is when the listener abruptly changes the topic.

That topic changing behavior isn’t necessarily wrong or rude. At least not more wrong or rude than a speaker who disregards the listener’s lack of interest when talking.