Topaz Adizes on How a Single Conversation Can Change a Relationship Forever

Have you ever found yourself in the presence of someone you love dearly and had nothing to say? The silence, not indicative of your care for the other, nor of your desire to connect with them, and yet there were no words you could grasp to articulate the depth or quality of your connection to them.

Or, have you found yourself in the same looped pattern of conversation with someone you love?

Feeling as though you were treading the same path repeatedly, and it was simply exhausting? Or, even worse, it was deteriorating your connection. Have you found yourself so in love that you want to forge an even deeper connection but can’t find the tools or the experiences to help you build the next, greater version of what you sense is possible? Have you questioned the value of intimate relationships? Or what intimacy really means?

How does it affect your life? How do you build it? How do you maintain it? And on a more basic level, what’s the payoff?

We all crave connection. But sometimes we need help getting there.

Topaz Adizes offers a guide to having the conversations that can lead to that connection in his latest book, 12 Questions for Love: A Guide to Intimate Conversations and Deeper Relationships. After a decade of…