communication

  • Parents Call Family.

    I came across this paragraph in "Codependent No More" by Melody Beatte.  "Codependents are indirect. We don't say what mean, we don't mean what we say.  We don't do this on purpose. We do it because we've learned to communicate… Continue reading

  • Point of Conversation

    Martha Beck writes (In Leaving the Saints) about the way she was taught to communicate in the Mormon Church, “through continuous indirect communication, I learned that a good Mormon girl doesn’t travel in the dimension of direct communication.” This is… Continue reading