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July 2012 Moms
ljanette85
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Trouble communicating with SO. Help!
ljanette85
member
My bf and I have really had a hard time communicating effectively. It's causing problems in our relationship. We both want things to work out but not being able to talk is a problem. He will admit to being bad at sitting down and talking...I can talk all day long but when he clams up I get aggravated.
Anyone else have a SO that you have or had a tough time communicating with? Any advice? It's just day to day stuff that gets pushed under the rug because he doesn't want to talk or I'm "afraid" to approach him about because I know that the conversation will go nowhere 
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Re: Trouble communicating with SO. Help!
MH and I have issues sometimes. We come from completely different backgrounds and our families communicate with one another differently and sometimes it is hard to find that "middle ground". He tens to get heated and raise his voice and he used to curse sometimes too, but I quickly let him know I didn't tolerate that. Also, his family fights All.The.Time and gets over each fight really quickly and often seem completely unbothered by it while my family rarely fights, but when we do it tends to be very emotional and both parties tend to get more upset that they are fighting than they were about the original issue that caused the fight.
Now, when MH and I fight, I often end up overly emotional and hurt and he is just over it and acts like it never happened, which is hard for me sometimes because it seems uncaring to me. Then I want to just keep talking about it and talking about it to somehow "fix" it and he just wants to be over it. LOL. We have been married 2 years and things are getting better, but it is still something we have to work on every time we have an argument of some sort.