Editor’s Letter: What if we started listening to each other?

My husband and I don’t always listen to each other. My excuse is that I’m hearing impaired, and I take my hearing aids out when I’m at home – which means that often I literally don’t even hear him.
But seriously, you might say that this failure to communicate is a consequence of balancing the many demands of our modern life. Yet maybe the biggest culprit is just the fact that we assume we’ve heard it all already. That after more than a decade together there&rs