Have been with DH for 20 years, married for 11. Two children, six and nearly three.
This year has been a tough one for our relationship. He gets low during the winter and can be grumpy and snappy when work is stressful. I went for counselling to help me with my own issues (I overreact to things and can be PA, amongst other things) and think I am much more constructive at dealing with conflict now. DH has also been making a big effort not to take his feelings out on me and the DC. So things improved for a while.
However, we both feel we don't have much in common at the moment. Personality-wise I'm interested in lots of stuff, like to know what's going on with everyone's work, feelings, social life. He's very quiet, is deeply involved in his work (which is very specialist) and is, I feel, not really interested in what I get up to. It's ended up that we're living very separate lives and not really connecting on many levels, seem to have different priorities, aren't communicating very well.
We went out this evening and had a moderately crap evening stalling arguments and totally misunderstanding each other - this is a bit of a pattern when we try to spend time together, though doesn't always happen.
We've calmly agreed this evening we need to connect better and communicate better. The problem is we have no clue how to go about that. Any wise advice out there?
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How to reconnect and improve communication?
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LookingForPerspective2015 · 03/09/2016 00:12
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