Hey everyone, I just joined (hehe, my intro post hasn't even been approved yet, I hope this posts!) & the first thing that popped into my mind to write about has to do with my relationship & communication with my husband.

My hubby is the sweetest, kindest & sincerest person that I've ever met. We talk openly about our individual issues but seem to have trouble communicating with each other on our "shared" issues. Well, somewhat I guess. Enough for me to post this, anyhow.

My issue is this: When I am upset, for whatever reason or no matter how intensely or how much I show, his response is usually something along the lines of "It'll be ok, honey ..." or "it'll all work out in the end," or "I love you! As long as we have each other things will be ok." I don't doubt the sincerity of what he says one bit, it's just ... ah!

I've spoken to my therapist about this and her advice is to basically just tell him that I could really use more encouragement and (IMO) a generic type of response (generic being my word as I can't remember exactly what she said). So, I took her advice & the hubby & I spoke ... at the time it seemed to work, but now we're back to the "generic" responses again.

Any ideas on how I should approach him with this, yet again, or if & how I can deal with what he shells out?