https://vitaesacra.com/tags/conflict-and-repair/Recent content in Conflict-and-Repair on Vitae Sacra — Catholic Marriage, Intimacy & WellnessHugoen-usFri, 20 Mar 2026 18:10:18 +0100https://vitaesacra.com/marriage-and-faith/listening-skills-for-married-catholics/Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000https://vitaesacra.com/marriage-and-faith/listening-skills-for-married-catholics/<p>Most of us walked into marriage genuinely wanting to be a good listener. We pictured patient conversations over coffee, the unhurried kind where both people felt truly known. Then life arrived — exhaustion, schedules, fertility grief, the particular friction of two people who love each other and still manage to talk past each other on a Tuesday night — and we discovered that listening well is one of the hardest things marriage asks of us.</p>