Hi. Would like to open a new thread for people to recommend books on communication techniques that helped them the most. I am a wife who walked away, although it was not sudden or surprising. I am thinking of giving my marriage one last chance, but some things need to be resolved and talked about before I can move on to R. However, I find myself in this limbo of not knowing how to do that. Me and my husband are both conflict avoidance people and keep deep hurt all bottled up. He is a lot more so than I am. In the past when I tried to address some issues he would completely Stonewall and shutdown. In the end there was no point of even bringing it up anymore. I felt like a crazy person talking to myself. Now he mentioned that he wants to improve our communication, so it gives me hope that he has grown as a person. I feel like I have a pretty good grasp on communicating, but how do you communicate with a person who shuts down? I do believe he will do that again and I will just throw in the towel in frustration. Is there a book that talks about how to draw people like my husband out and keep them talking?
