[notfarnow]

great advice...

A little background: We've been good friends for 10 years, been a couple for 4 years, and have lived together for 4 years. We own a house together as well.

She's an excellent communicator... much better than me. When my lack of communication became a barrier on a couple issues, we went to counselling. I wasn't particularly excited to do that, for fear that I would be found to be "at fault"... err... which I was. In the end, I was just as glad to get through that early on.