Good Communication In Marriage

Throughout the Communication Program, you’ll gain effective communication skills to apply to your marriage and other relationships with friends and family.

You and your spouse will learn to:

• Have difficult conversations without fighting or exchanging hurtful words.
• Discuss your concerns without blaming or attacking.
• Express your emotions, fears, and desires openly with your partner.
• Not just hear each other’s words but truly listen to what the other person is saying.
• Empathize with each other’s perspective and feelings.
• Focus on finding common ground and resolving issues as a team.
• Improve nonverbal communication through open body language.
• Build open channels of communication so you can start talking about anything and feeling more connected.

To build these communication skills, we’ll lead you through exercises designed to help you start listening to each other and move toward deeper understanding and connection.

Yes.

Healthy communication is the most important factor in a successful marriage.

When you improve communication with your spouse, it’ll drastically transform how safe and connected you feel in your life together.

In the Communication Program, you’ll develop the tools to communicate effectively and build a great marriage.

However, building new patterns of communicating and relating to each other doesn’t happen overnight.

Creating healthy relationship dynamics requires time, effort, and commitment.

That said, by committing to the program, you’ll transform your dynamic as a married couple and build the relationship you long for.

Many people find that they have a different communication style from their partner.

Each unique individual has a different way of seeing the world and communicating their needs, wants, and pains.

With the Communication Program, couples learn to speak a common shared language that builds deeper levels of connection, attunement, and understanding.

With expert advice, you’ll communicate more effectively with your husband or wife.

Some of the research-backed communication methods you’ll implement:

• Active listening
• Improving non-verbal communication (like eye contact and open body language)
• Asking clarifying questions
• Practicing empathy and seeing things from a different perspective
• De-escalating a heated conversation or argument

As you improve communication with your spouse, you’ll not just hear the words the other person is saying – but truly listen and attune to each other’s feelings.

Listening to each other in this way deepens emotional safety, trust, and intimacy.

During a challenging conversation, you’ll feel safe to speak your mind openly, knowing you’re on the same team.

Sessions are always tailored to your unique needs in the moment and shaped by your circumstances and needs.

This customized structure is a key difference between the Communication Program and traditional therapy, which follows a set script and model.

Sessions are either free-form or pre-planned, depending on what you need in the moment.

We’ll have ideas of how each session will be shaped based on your goals. And we’ll alter the course of sessions based on the most important need that day.

Of course, we’re always aware of the larger goal – to help partners break destructive patterns, develop healthy communication skills, and build a happy marriage.

We rarely separate couples for 1-on-1 sessions.

Our work is for your relationship, requiring both partners to attend sessions together.

On rare occasions, we suggest having a 1-1 session with you and your partner separately.

Yes. We will assign homework tailored to your specific needs as a couple.

Your assignment could be anything from trying out an exercise or answering a written communication prompt.

It is not unusual for conversations to become heated and emotions to run high.

If you or your partner get heated during a session, we lead you through steps to calm down, de-escalate, and repair.

We have vast experience helping partners work through these difficult moments and find a way forward.

We know couples are improving when they get along more, fight less, and feel more connected.

When you do have misunderstandings, you can resolve conflicts faster and repair them with more ease.

Additionally, you’ll feel more safe and trusting of each other.

Though it requires openness and effort, couples develop new ways of communicating and relating to each other, transforming their relationships.