Top Reasons Couples Stop Listening To Each Other
Why it discourages listening
If you start asking your partner lots of rhetorical questions, he’ll feel disrespected. It feels like you’re his mom, and he’s a little kid getting in trouble. If many of the words that come out of our mouth are rhetorical questions, your partner will start to think, “I don’t have to listen when my partner speaks because she’s already answered her own question. Answering would just be demeaning at this point.”