
12 Tips to Promote Relationship Success
- Calm your emotions and try to think clearly and objectively.
- Speak and act more constructively.
- Express appropriate emotional needs such as “I missed you”, instead of having a pre-determined expectation that your partner “must be here for me”.
- Avoid taking on another person’s emotional state, e.g. their anxiety, fear etc…
- Your happiness comes from within you and shouldn’t be dependent on another person.
- Change your maladaptive patterns of behaviour without expectations from the other person, i.e. be less needy or less critical.
- Look for reasons behind the anxiety of others so you can be less reactive and manage yourself better around them.
- It is not important to be loved, liked, approved of, accepted or nurtured by everyone.
- Focus on “you” at least 51% of the time so that you can manage your emotional needs without being critical of yourself or blaming anyone else.
- Make important relationship decisions calmly and thoughtfully, is better than making decisions based on impulsive feelings.
- You can’t change the past, but you can create a different future.
- Stop seeking or expecting others to nurture you like how you want to be nurtured by your parents.
Tips To Promote Relationship Success Read More ยป