The Dance of Connection: How to Talk to Someone When You're Mad, Hurt, Scared, Frustrated, Insulted, Betrayed, or Desperate

by Harriet Lerner

A relationship may reach a crisis point when we can’t make ourselves heard, or (on the other side of the conversational fence) when we can’t keep listening to another person who is wearing us down with complaints, criticism, negativity, demands, excuses, or irresponsible behavior. We may need an apology