Healthy Dialogue Quotes

For any relationship to survive, one needs excellent communication.

If you say hard things you must expect to hear them in return.

To solve a marriage problem, you have to talk with each other about it, choosing wisely the time and place. But when accusations and lengthy speeches of defense fill the dialogue, the partners are not talking to each other but past each other. Take care to listen more than you speak. If you still can't agree on a solution, consider asking a third party, without a vested interest, to mediate.

It's up to the man to not be offended when she tells him what she needs. He shouldn't say, "I know that!" And he shouldn't say, "The woman that I had before you had ten orgasms without her telling me anything!"

Talking to your parents is a great idea - if you have that relationship with them.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

[Sexual abuse] is such a sharp, potent topic that we really should have discussions about more openly and more often.

You don't learn how to say 'hey, I have a problem,' but you also don't learn how to hear it. There's a total breakdown of how females talk to one another. It's very disconcerting for leadership because it means you don't talk to each other; you talk about each other.

My mom has a good way of engaging me in a conversation about the choices I make, listening, being objective and open-minded, and respecting those choices so long as they don't put me in danger.

I am saying yes to criticism, but no to insults.

It is stupid not to talk about sex. It is stupid not to communicate with your spouse and your children. It can't be a taboo.

I've made a career out of being able to talk about difficult things, and that comes from growing up in an environment where nothing was embarrassing.

Silence isn't golden and it surely doesn't mean consent, so start practicing the art of communication.

The next step is to learn to communicate with the people that you feel are causing your pain and misery- not to learn how to prove them wrong and yourself right but how to communicate from the heart.

We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.