Your spouse is not a mind reader. Learn to use words to communicate nicely and effectively in order to avoid wild guesses and its attendant troubles and heartaches.
“A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.” – Proverbs 15: 1
“A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.” – Proverbs 25: 11
“But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.” – Matthew 5: 37
“Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.” – Colossians 4: 6
