Relationship Spice - Common Situations and Options

When anger hinders communication
Creating a place where it is possible to look behind the anger and allow the true meaning to be expressed and heard, perhaps for the first time.

Finding or facilitating a mutual agenda out of conflict
Achieving an understanding of the existence of individual and, possibly mutual, agendas. Maybe just an acceptance of the differences and ways of fitting them into partnerships.

He/she won't talk/listen
Maybe they already are talking/listening. Maybe there is a block. What is being left unsaid but speaks volumes? Maybe it can be said in a place where both people feel safe - uncomfortable probably - but safe to express their real thoughts.

I want to talk to him/her just like I do with my best friend
Recognise and accept what that will look and feel like in your relationship, and recognising each other's communication styles in broad terms.

That Time and Life seems to have overtaken the love and dreams - and how did we get here anyway?
Maybe the time to talk is now, not after the next 'thing' is out of the way or the 'next thing' after that. What is the current reality? What do you want it to be? What would you have said had you had the time and space to say it?