Communication and relationships

Communication with male and female is very different. I have found this out the hard way. Many time I have expected things from the males in my life and didnt get what I wanted. Looking back, I see I illuded to what I wanted from them, but never flat out told them. I forget people cant read minds and we all have our own ways of misinterpreting things. I know communication is very important to a strong relationship. With my best friend, we are not the best at communicating with each other. We go to different schools, have different majors, different friends and live in different cities. Its not always easy to relate to each other and give feedback on our lives. We have come up, very unintentionally, with a great way of communicating with each other. We call it the blab listen friendship. Since our lives have gone in such different directions, we have found it easiest to let one person talk until they have nothing left to talk about, then the other person can talk. We really dont say much to each other, its just mainly a listening friendship. I really do think this is probably the best friendship I have ever had and it weird to know we really dont have that much in common anymore!