Creating Atmospheres for Communication There are only three (sometimes four) things that bring people into my office: (1) sex and Intimacy, (2) kids, (3) money and finances, and (sometimes 4) in-laws), and everyone calls it Communication! Part of the reason that communication is so difficult is that we automatically assume what the other person is going to say, and so we keep our feelings, our thoughts, our emotions, our desires, and our beliefs to ourselves. We may also keep