This may help some of you....

The Myers-Briggs Personality Inventory can help you more effectively communicate with almost anyone. That includes your spouse, parent, child, co-worker.

Basically, there are eight type components

extroverted
introverted

intuitive
sensing

thinking
feeling

perceiving
judging

Everyone has one of each pair. There are 16 possible combinations.

MBTI information

My communication with my x greatly improved when I spent time figuring out what my type was and what his type was.

There are several books on the subject.....Just Your Type deals with communication between adults and Nurture or Nature deals with parenting. Both are by Barron and Barron-Tieger. I recommend both of them. These are not the only books - just two that I can recommend. Just Your Type has been used as a textbook in college classes dealing with marriage.