Communication is an exchange of feelings or information. It takes two people to communicate, one sending, and the other receiving. This single most important ingredient in a long term marriage is the ability for both partners to communicate properly.

Communication is to love what blood is to the body. When communication stops flowing, you’re dead. Blessings can pass you by when you don’t communicate.

A man and his wife had been arguing all night, and as bedtime approached neither was speaking to the other. It was not unusual for the pair to continue this war of silence for two or three days. However, on this occasion the man was concerned; he needed to be awake at 4:30 am the next morning to catch an important flight, and being a very heavy sleeper he normally relied on his wife to wake him. Cleverly, so he thought, while his wife was in the bathroom, he wrote on a piece of paper: “please wake me at 4: 30am – I have an important flight to catch”. He put the note on his wife’s pillow then turned over and went to sleep.

The man awoke the next morning and looked at the clock. It was 8:00am. Enraged that he’d missed his flight, he was about to go in search of his errant wife to give her a piece of his mind when he spotted a hand-written note on his bedside cabinet complete the story here http://neeksta.com/News/communication-as-a-tool-in-marriage-neeksta-reflection-dec-14-2013/

There is a Yoruba adage that says, “bi ogiri o ba lanu, alangba o le wo ogiri”, (Translation: if there is no opening on a wall, a lizard cannot find its way inside). Lack of proper communication between married couples is an opening for “lizards”, intruders and other negative vices to enter into a marriage.

Poor communication can degenerate into depression, divorce etc
Make good communication a commitment in your marriage, relationships.

Adapted from Nothing Just Happens