The health of you and your partner’s relationships with each other’s family and friends contributes to the health of your relationship with your partner; it is important to nurture lifelong relationships with each other’s family and friends.
Developing new friendships with other couples can help build your own relationship
In strongerrelationships, strong couples club, family and friends
08 December 2020 | 0 Comments
How much involvement in your relationship from family and friends is normal?
In strongerrelationships, strong couples club, family and friends, boundaries
01 December 2020 | 0 Comments
Family and friends: You want them to like your partner and you want your partner to like them. This happens naturally for some couples while others need to monitor these relationships so that the influence and interference on your relationship is appropriate.
Boundaries in your relationship must be respected by family and friends
In strongerrelationships, strong couples club, family and friends, boundaries
24 November 2020 | 0 Comments
Family and friends are part of a larger system that can provide encouragement to your relationship, but that larger system can also be detrimental to your relationship if there is a significant lack of acceptance and support.
How much involvement in your relationship from family and friends is normal?
In strongerrelationships, strong couples club, family and friends, boundaries
27 October 2020 | 0 Comments
Your partner’s family and friends, as well as your own, will impact your relationship in some way and while family and friends are part of a larger system that can provide encouragement to your relationship, that larger system can also be detrimental to your relationship if there is a significant lack of acceptance and support.
Boundaries in your relationship must be respected by family and friends
In strongerrelationships, strong couples club, family and friends, boundaries
20 October 2020 | 0 Comments
Family and friends are part of a larger system that can provide encouragement to your relationship, but that larger system can also be detrimental to your relationship if there is a significant lack of acceptance and support. Regardless of the level of acceptance and support, couples must set appropriate boundaries to to ensure both are comfortable with the level of influence and interference family and friends have on their relationship.
Family and friends will impact your relationship in some way
In strongerrelationships, strong couples club, family and friends
13 October 2020 | 0 Comments
Family and friends are part of a larger system that can provide encouragement to your relationship, but that larger system can also be detrimental to your relationship if there is a significant lack of acceptance and support.
How does your communication and conflict resolution patterns contribute to expectations in your relationship?
In communication, Conflict, expectations, strongerrelationships, strong couples club
06 October 2020 | 0 Comments
There are certain expectations you have of yourself, and others that you put on your partner, and while that is not a bad thing, it can become detrimental to your relationship if your expectations are not realistic or even worse, uncommunicated.
Identify your expectation filter and understand its impact on your relationship
In communication, expectations, strongerrelationships, strong couples club
29 September 2020 | 0 Comments
The next time you or your partner feel disappointed because of an unmet expectation, talk about it. Try to identify why the expectation was not met. Was it too high to achieve? Was it not communicated? Did the expectation change over time without one partner knowing? Gaining some understanding and resolution out of the experience can help both of you meet future expectations.
