Three experienced life coaches you specialize in mixed faith marriages get together to talk about how to speak up in your marriage. Brooke Booth, Chris Rich and Suzette Halterman discuss the following:

1. How can you initially broach a difficult topic and bring something up to your spouse when that feels scary to do,  maybe because it’s scary to bring up something that you have never talked about, or because  in the past it has led to conflict or not gone anywhere productive?  What are your tips or strategies? What if your spouse is unwilling to work with you with you when you do speak up or your bring it up but it doesn’t go well? Any personal experiences?

how can you make requests as a way of speaking up and asking for things that you want in the relationship? What if your spouse does not honor your requests? Any tips, thoughts, or personal experiences about making requests?

3. What exactly does it mean to set a boundary? What are some tips for doing this? Do you have any examples from your mixed-faith marriage?

4. How can you speak up about what matters to you in ways that are productive? What might be an unproductive way to speak up about what matters to you? Any thoughts,tips or personal experiences?

5. One way to speak up is to be aware of whether you are beating around the bush, dropping hints, alluding to things, using body language instead of words to communicate etc. How can you translate those more passive approaches to very direct and clear communicating?

6. If you struggle with speaking up in your relationship, any thoughts on how to work on this?
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