Adult Communication: Talk to Me, Baby

Can’t break through those communication barriers? Everyone struggles with conflict, especially with their partners. Whether your style is screaming or the silent treatment, you may be asking:

    • Why won’t my partner just listen and do what I ask?
    • Is the way we fight or handle conflict scarring our kids for life?
    • How can healthy communication put the sizzle back in our sex life?

In this kit, you’ll hear about everything from nagging to love languages to makeup sex. You’ll also find actionable expert tips to improve how you connect and learn what to do about those issues you just can’t resolve. Ears perked? Then listen up – and level up on communication.

What goes into making a course?

7 Episodes

14 Activities

353 Hours of study

5 Experts

86 Papers and books

31 Recommended Resources

Expert Highlights

Dan Wile, PhD

Couples Therapist, Author

Someone has to feel heard before they can start listening. That’s really the whole ballgame: feeling heard enough to be able to hear.

— Listen to Me With Your Eyes

Philip A. Cowan, PhD
Professor Emerita
We must not focus only on how the two people talk to each other, but on how they feel about themselves, how they feel about being parents, what models they come from, what families they come from. All of that plays into how they communicate.

— Lines of Communication

Carolyn Pape Cowan, PhD

Adjunct Professor Emerita

It’s the most natural thing in the world that two people are going to have somewhat different ideas or vulnerabilities about something that’s going on. It’s just what you do about it that matters.

— Fight the Good Fight

Alex Korb, PhD

Neuroscientist, Adjunct Assistant Professor at UCLA

A lot of people will tell you how to be an active listener. They’ll be like, ‘Make eye contact and put your phone away and nod your head.’ But I’d say the most important thing is the first step, which is to be interested in what the other person is telling you.

— Listen to Me With Your Eyes

Lonnie Barbach, PhD

Psychologist, Couples Therapist, Author, Speaker

The only solution I’ve found to really make that work on a regular basis is for couples to actually make dates. If we don’t plan sex, it gets relegated to last place.

— Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby

What the Parents Say

I learned that I’m really good at talking not that good at listening although I really do try most of the time I end up interrupting the person I am talking to due to the fact that I think they’re done talking and they’re not done talking they just took a breath and I have a problem with guessing what the other person is trying to say and most the time I’m wrong with what they’re trying to say I try but I feel like I need to try a lot less and listen a lot more

Carmella

actually caughta moment with my husband listening in also and I literally broke down into tears because this whole episode was us in a nut shell and he and I connected just over this one episode and were able to effectively communicate to each other for the first time in a long time just about wanting to communicate better.we havea big blended family of 6 kids that all live with us so communication is extremely difficult for us.

Amber

I am so much better at listening and therapeutic communication when it’s not something I’m in my feelings about. I have had a bad relationship and communication wasn’t but a one way street. I think the tips I’m going to try to make them part of my tool box.

Stevie

I learned that I’m really good at talking not that good at listening although I really do try most of the time I end up interrupting the person I am talking to due to the fact that I think they’re done talking and they’re not done talking they just took a breath and I have a problem with guessing what the other person is trying to say and most the time I’m wrong with what they’re trying to say I try but I feel like I need to try a lot less and listen a lot more

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