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7 Ways To Improve Communication With Your Partner
Ask questions
Not everyone is forthcoming with information, especially if something is bothering them.
Make it a habit of asking your partner how he or she is doing and how his or her day was, even if your spouse is not always interested in speaking with you at length at that exact moment.
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Know what you need
Take two minutes right now and list what would most benefit you. It could be taking 15 minutes to decompress after work. Or to have a few hours a week to read a book. Or even guitar lessons.
Highlight what sticks out to you the most on your list. Then decide what top few choices are suitable for your available time and finances.
Communicate your needs
To have a successful and productive conversation with your partner about your needs and desires:
- Timing is everything. Set a time aside together that is free of distractions, relatively peaceful, and not when you are overtired.
- Remember, you're on the same team. Handle the conversation with gentleness and without criticism.
- Actively listen. To encourage understanding, don't just listen to respond. Truly try to understand how your partner feels.
- It's about giving and taking. Relationships are about mutual understanding, compassion, and sacrifice.
- Do regular relationship checkups to foster connection and open communication.
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Reverse Psychology
- The more we push someone to do something, the more they resist and rebel.
- The more urgently we need information from someone, the harder it could get for us to get it out of a person.
- Building rapport, and providing autonomy to the person help thaw out the relationship and get things moving.
Forming A Connection
- With the help of the right communication, attitude and gestures, a rapport can be formed with the other person (like a teenager or a spouse).
- The power balance needs to be restored/shared, so the person who is ‘closed’ finds a reason to open up.
- Threatening, blackmailing and trickery rarely work in such situations, with a humble, submissive and empathetic person having a much better chance at being effective.
Be together for the right reasons
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Realistic relationship expectations
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True love is impervious to emotional whims or fancy. It is a constant commitment to a person regardless of present circumstances. Some days will be a struggle, and other days you will feel like the luckiest person in the world. True love is more satisfying and meaningful and brings true happiness, not just a series of highs.
Respect in relationships
People who have been through divorces almost always say communication is the most important thing. But the thing people with happy marriages consider the most important is a deep respect for their partner as well as respect for themselves.
- Respect means never talking bad about your partner or complain about them to your friends.
- Respect that they have different hobbies, interests, and perspectives.
- Respect that they have an equal say in the relationship, that you are a team.
- No secrets. Respect means you feel safe sharing your deepest, most intimate selves with each other.