ShareMyHeart Blog: Failure to Communicate

I recently fell in love with a woman from another country. We had shared time together in the States and when I traveled back to her world we spent more time together. We had similar interests, complimentary personalities, and thoroughly enjoyed being with each other. There was only one real challenge.

We didn't speak the same language.

Her world was Spanish. My world was English. After several months of studying Spanish and doing the best I could with dictionaries, hand signals, and helpful friends we seemed to be doing fairly well...until we hit the wall. We created a situation where nothing but simple, honest, heart-to-heart communication would work. And we were unable to do that.

Now I could make up excuses about how the problem was that we didn't speak the same language, but in truth it was much deeper than that, much more than words alone...

We didn't share our hearts. Fear got in the way and shut communcation down.

I am very saddened by this experience, and am struggling to learn from it. For the moment all I can say is that Failure to Communicate is most likely not a word problem...it is a heart problem.

If we truly love someone from the depths of our heart we WILL find a way to communicate, no matter what it takes.

Are you pretending that the communication failures in your life are word problems? Need help with this? Write me...

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