Jackie, everything sounds so promising in your recent posts! If you feel as though you're starting to backslide into old habits, you might still want to attend a retrouvaille weekend. My dh and I are the WORST conflict avoiders and our weekend helped us start to communicate for the first time in our 11 years together. We haven't yet gotten to the conflict handling part of our follow-ups, but the dialogue part really, really was amazing for us to learn.
p.s. -- can someone tell me how I make my link into words and not the whole http address?!?