How often do you have a heart-to-heart talk with your spouse?

I don't have a spouse, but I do have someone that I was trying to make things work with! Anyways, I belong to the type that keeps things to myself to reduce the burden/stress/trouble on others - so I tend to keep my emotions bottled up too and tell myself excuses/"white lies" about things that were happening just to avoid any confrontation/unhappiness. However, I realized that it's not a good approach and I literally just had a heart-to-heart talk last night over WhatsApp. Being open about my feelings and thoughts (I was preparing to let the relationship go) made him do the same, and it really helped me to have closure over whatever that was going through my mind - so I'd say that it is really important to have regular heart-to-heart talk with your partner, especially when you're married!