Luis Maimoni, LMFT

Marriage and Family Therapist in Long Beach, California

Category: Being Assertive

Are you being taken for granted? Do you struggle to ask for what you want and need?

Listen To Be Heard

Do you feel like your partner never listens, no matter how hard you try to get through to them? You’re not alone. Many couples experience communication breakdowns that leave one person feeling unheard and the other overwhelmed.

In my therapy practice, I often see this dynamic: one partner raises their voice, desperate to be understood, while the other shuts down. But the harder we push to be heard, the less space we create for connection.

If this sounds familiar, there’s hope. Learning how to calm conflict, listen actively, and communicate gently can transform your relationship.

Read more about how to break the cycle and reconnect.

Finding Meaningful Connections in a Busy World

Advice on how to find and keep friends in our over-busy lives: Blame the Internet and information overload, blame work culture, globalization, competition, and economic pressures, blame the increasing complexity of life, we’re all over-busy. Why make the effort to reach out to a friend when the couch is so comfy and the familiar comfort of screen-scrolling is just a finger flick away?

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