I have become much, much better at it over the last three weeks or so. I automatically look away when talking about some painful or personal or otherwise difficult subjects, when I'm too embarrassed to look T in the eye. By consciously seeking eye contact with T when I'm talking about subjects that are not quite so painful, and also when he is talking, I can actually notice an improvement; I was able to maintain eye contact for several minutes at a time today, even while talking about some fairly difficult stuff.

With other people I don't have that much of a problem keeping eye contact. I make sure to look my students in the eye when I talk to them, which gives me a lot of practice.