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Listening Skills

Listening skills have nothing to do with hearing. Everyone hears just fine. The problem is understanding, processing, and responding to what has just been said. Men like to tune people out just because they aren’t interest in a conversation, or because they think the person is going to say something that they just don’t want to hear. I find it amazing that when my husband watches football his listening skills are second to none, yet when I am speaking I am often met with a blank stare and a well timed ‘uh huh’. After fourteen years of knowing my husband, I have learned what to do.

If you husband has poor listening skills, you have to catch him at the right time. It’s a bit of trickery, but it is something that women just have to do. I’m not saying that they want to ignore us all of the time, but I do think it is something they do because they don’t want to know that everything might not be up to the standards that they think they are setting. I have had to wait until I was sure my husbands listening skills were at their peak to tell him something important, even if I had to stop him in the middle of an intimate moment. I don’t care how wrong that sounds. It works and I stick with what works.

Since I started doing this, his listening skills at other times of the day have greatly improved. Perhaps he has gotten the message. If he doesn’t listen to me when I need him to hear me, I am going to speak up when I know he will, even if it’s just not the right moment and it means he has to wait for what he wants. Communication is the cornerstone of any good relationship, and if someone has poor listening skills, you have to find a way to work around it or things will never work out in the end.

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