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Communication

Practice & SkillSexual Communication & InitiationGeneral Sensitivity

The ways partners share information, feelings, needs, and boundaries—through words, tone, timing, and behavior.

What This Really Means

You might notice it as tone, timing, and clarity in conversations.

It often improves when stress, conflict, and how safe it feels to be honest.

Examples

Saying what you want directly

Using a playful hint and then checking in

Common Misunderstandings

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Reality

Communication isn’t defined by always being calm, and it’s about the ways partners share information, feelings, needs, and boundaries—through words, tone, timing, and behavior.

Reality

More accurately, Communication refers to the ways partners share information, feelings, needs, and boundaries—through words, tone, timing, and behavior, and if you love each other, you shouldn’t need to explain doesn’t follow from that.

Reality

More talking isn’t automatically always better, and Communication is about the ways partners share information, feelings, needs, and boundaries—through words, tone, timing, and behavior.

Reality

Communication describes the ways partners share information, feelings, needs, and boundaries—through words, tone, timing, and behavior, so it doesn’t mean that it can’t change.

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Inside LoveIQ

We identify patterns related to Communication by analyzing responses in our assessment modules, helping you understand your unique relationship dynamics.

Sample visualization of a gap metric.

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