Quote: So, it seems that I somehow have to change the conversations from an airing of my feelings to something that resembles a plan for resolution.
Michele has a chapter in DR about "asking for what you want." It's also one of the tenets of Marshall Rosenberg's "Nonviolent Communication" that you never air any type of complaint without including a specific, doable, request for what you want. Besides his book, there is info at cnvc.org.
