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Ways to Improve Your Primary Relationship

Filed Under Life Coaching, Mental Healing

The New Year has just begun.  Let’s say that one of your New Years resolutions is to improve your primary love relationship.  This is a lofty goal which might encompass any number of different approaches.  What can you do — specifically — to follow through wiHappy New Year 2015 from The Life Coach Dr.!th this resolve?

One of the most beneficial elements you can undertake to better your relationship is to improve communication.  Communication is essential to your relationship’s health and well-being.  Good communication can help deepen the intimacy and loving bonds in your relationship.

To improve communication with your partner, you might choose to do 1 thing each day to better communicate with your partner.

What might you choose to do?

The five key components of good communication are —
1) Stay calm and objective;
2) Listen and understand;
3) Be honest about who you are and what you want;
4) Compromise; and
5) Make and keep agreements

Let’s say you decide to focus on your listening skills. To do so, you might —
* schedule time with your partner
* encourage your partner to talk about his/her feelings
* ask questions that stimulate more discussion and information
* reflect back to your partner what you understand him/her to say
* thank you partner for sharing these ideas and this time with you

 

 

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