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Here is a test which will allow you to think about the quality of your dialogues:

The ten golden rules of the dialogue. 

* Know how to listen to and answer only when your spouse has finished to speak.

* Be slow to speak and think at first.

* Say the truth with love and exaggerate nothing.

* Do not use the silence to deprive your spouse. Explain the reasons of your hesitances.

* Do not quarrel. Do not forget that it is possible to have a different opinion without quarrelling for all that.

* Be kind in your answers.

* Know how to recognize your disadvantages.

* Stop harassing your spouse, avoid annoying him.

* Do not criticize him but to try to encourage him.

* Try to understand before being understood, be tolerant, take in heart the interests of your spouse. 

S. Hatzakortzian  (in rosee.org/josette )