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Stop having serious conversations with your spouse over text. 📱❌ | Dave and Ashley Willis

Name: Stop having serious conversations with your spouse over text. 📱❌ | Dave and Ashley Willis
Uploaded: 2026-03-06T11:00:00+00:00
Duration: 1 min 8 s
Channel: Dave Willis
Description: Dave and Ashley Willis say texting serious relationship issues strips away tone and body language, causing misunderstandings and fights. They adopted a…

6 Mar 2026 · 1 min

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Dave and Ashley Willis say texting serious relationship issues strips away tone and body language, causing misunderstandings and fights. They adopted a rule: never discuss important matters over text. They say it's made their home more peaceful because they can actually see each other's reactions and work things out faster.

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I would also encourage you to make a policy of like, we're not going to ever argue or talk about anything of real importance via text message. So many—
this is a big deal—
dumb marriage arguments are the result of you're talking about important stuff via text message where you can't read into tone, you can't read into like all of the nonverbals. Um, it's a toxic way to have an important conversation. This is your spouse, like talk to each other. And it's gonna get you to a solution so much faster. It's gonna avoid unnecessary miscommunication.
Stop having these very important conversations over text. And what do you know, over time when they stop just that one thing you're talking about, it's been so much, they've had so much more peace in their home. And really she said there's been so much more understanding because they're actually able to talk it out. Because what was happening with him is he would get this text from her and he would see this huge, like onslaught of words, and he would just glaze over and immediately get flooded with emotion and be angry and not even wanna read the whole thing. And so that is a huge part of communicating in a healthy way.
We have to think about it from the perspective of how the message is being received.
Yes.
'Cause that's really what communication is, is the message received. And if it's not being received in the right way, or if it's too much or whatever, you just have to be mindful of those things.