Key Takeaways Everyday conversation habits can strengthen relationships or create distance, depending on how respectful and balanced they are.Conversation errors like interrupting, dismissive language ...

Prevent those awkward silences on your next date night.

Every day we engage in conversations rooted in ritual and social norms. With no conscious effort, we shift from one role to another. One minute, I’m a husband happily cooking breakfast with his wife.

As humans, we’re talking to each other constantly. With all that practice, we must be pretty good at it—right? Not exactly. As a professor at Harvard Business School and author of Talk: The Science of ...