{"id":47,"date":"2014-01-09T20:12:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T00:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/couplescounselorlosangeles.com\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2014-01-09T20:56:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-10T00:56:17","slug":"deepen-your-communication-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/couplescounselorlosangeles.com\/blog\/deepen-your-communication-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"Deepen Your Communication Skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* Make it emotionally safe to bring up difficult subjects.<\/p>\n<p>* Don&#8217;t use affection, sex and loving behavior to reward or punish<\/p>\n<p>*Dare to expose your imperfections and fears. This is especially difficult since it conflicts with the need for safety.<\/p>\n<p>*Consider your partner&#8217;s desire for greater distance or closeness as expressing a need for comfort-not a personal rejection.<\/p>\n<p>*Listen to each other with openness and curiosity.<\/p>\n<p>* Remember you are on the same team!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Make it emotionally safe to bring up difficult subjects. * Don&#8217;t use affection, sex and loving behavior to reward or punish *Dare to expose your imperfections and fears. This is especially difficult since it conflicts with the need for safety. *Consider your partner&#8217;s desire for greater distance or closeness as expressing a need for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/couplescounselorlosangeles.com\/blog\/deepen-your-communication-skills\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Deepen Your Communication Skills<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/couplescounselorlosangeles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/couplescounselorlosangeles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/couplescounselorlosangeles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/couplescounselorlosangeles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/couplescounselorlosangeles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/couplescounselorlosangeles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/couplescounselorlosangeles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/couplescounselorlosangeles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/couplescounselorlosangeles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}