#68: Why Do Couples Misunderstand Each Other? When Good Intentions Don't Create the Impact You Want

Practicing Love: Have the Best Love and Sex of Your Life After 40 · Oct 8, 2026 · 36m

Have you ever said something with good intentions, only to have your partner hear it completely differently than you meant it?

Maybe you were trying to help, but they felt criticized. You were trying to explain yourself, but they experienced you as defensive. Or you were protecting yourself, but they felt shut out.

So what do you do?

Too often, people get stuck arguing about what they meant instead of becoming curious about the impact they had.

In this episode of Practicing Love, I talk with Allison Brenner, executive coach and founder of InnerVue, about the often surprising gap between our…