Question 1. What is your experience with using and receiving unsupportive messages in your relationships (any kind)? Be sure to label the types of messages and explain your response using (and citing) the list in section 3.2 in Chapter 3: Language Can Separate Us: Common Types of Unsupportive Messages)
Question 2. Why do you think we have trouble explicitly stating our needs; instead, we expect other people to know our needs, and we are annoyed when they don't meet them with supportive messages (and inversely, they are annoyed with Is when we don't do the same)?
Question 3. What do you think gets in the way of our being able to communicate these needs? (This whole chapter can help you figure it out!)