communicate better with my partner

we have an anniversary coming up and i just remembered that last year we decided that we should “perfect” our communication problems. well, we still disagree sometimes, but i think we’ve done pretty well at learning to deal with it.

things have been going pretty well recently (knock on wood), but sometimes it’s hard to remember to prioritize remaining calm and rational when i’m feeling upset.

pointless disagreements are so frustrating, especially when you get to the bottom of them and realize that you basically agree after all. my goal is to skip the in between part and go straight from the discussion to the agreeing.