Emotional Communication Enthusiast Prints

"No one can lay on a guilt trip like my mother."

Licensed Therapist

"Sometimes ... I just want to run away."

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"You've got to learn about verbs. How else are you going to verbalize your feelings?

"I don't believe I've missed a single sign since you made the switch to Power Point."

'Bob, I know you're a Mockingbird, but a few compliments every now and then would greatly help your marriage...'

"Hello? Speaking, not listening."

She - Interpreter - He.

'I'm majoring in communication and minoring in pizza delivery - What about you?'

"Before texting we had to write letters by hand, and before emojis we honestly just bottled up our emotions."

'Am I looking sad or happy in the appropriate places?'

'The usual ‘nod, nod, wink, wink' will do, Walter. We don't need the eyebrow twitch and nostril flares.'

"Hi, you've reached Susan's desk. I am monotasking right now, so I'll call you back it's the phone's turn again. Beep!"

Words of Love

On-the-job creativity may go unrewarded an may even create consternation among co-workers.

"So, how are we doing with our trust issues?"

"Objection, your honor, my client's feelings are being hurt."

"When we first started seeing each other, we would always use the same word for snow."

My wife's been talking to the skin I shed for over an hour.

The Love Psychologists

They had a tendency to talk past one another.

'I like a woman who's open and friendly, as long as she's only that way with me.'

"Stop squawking. Use your words."

"Abbreviations here, abbreviations there, and one is more incomprehensible than the next!"

'Before we get started, let's go around the table and practice making eye contact.'

'I was just ringing to see if you'd got the email about my letter.'

'No, there's nothing on my mind, but if there was I don't want to talk about it.'

Technological advances within the office.

Relationship Issues.

'We had seven gloriously happy years together, and then he learned how to talk.'

"I've never seen a resume that's entirely made up of emojis. Let me take a few moments to decode it."

"We don't talk."

'He says he needs his own space.'

"Go ask your mother ... and I'll tell you why she's wrong."