Mistakes To Avoid In Your Relationship
Before we focus on the mistakes, I want you to evaluate the questions below.
Questions For Couples To Ask Each Other
- Do you sometimes feel that your partner is in an ill mood?
- Does your partner’s mood cause tension?
- Do you then allow their mood to influence how you feel or what you do?
When it comes to relationships or in general, interactions. I often find that people spend time reading non-verbal gestures. Instead, of simply asking their partner “what’s up…”
As a relationship counselor, I often work with truly amazing people who spend too much time guessing how their counterpart feels or what they are thinking.
Ask yourself?
- Do you sometimes look over at your partner and assume how he/she is feeling?
- Do you allow your guess of how your partner is feeling to influence how you react?
I have a simple solution. Well, the second part is simple; the first part requires work.
Watch the video below focused on behaviors that hurt a relationship. The behaviors directly connect to mistakes that hurt a relationship.
Part 1. Understanding why we are the way that we are:
More than likely, you are “guessing” what your partner is thinking or “assuming” how they feel due to past encounters and/or experiences. Something probably happened in the past. Maybe more often than you like to remember. This something could have been a negative experience that left you feeling tense, sad, or frustrated.
If so, accept that you are going to feel this way because of the past. It’s only “normal” for us to expect what happened yesterday to happen today.
Part 2: Acknowledging our old habit and replacing it with a new one
On your to-do list. Yes, the handy to-do list that most people have. I want you to write down the following statements:
- Ask my partner how they feel daily. “How you are feeling today?”
- If you assume that your partner is in a certain mood. Ask. “I feel that you looked annoyed. I am right or wrong?”
This activity is simple. Black and White.
The goal is focused on the problem that reading non-verbal language has led to issues in the relationship. Issues mean that you are walking on eggshells because you assume that your partner is in a certain mode. This activity focuses on promoting a new habit called direct communication. Ask your partner about their mood. Increasing healthy dialogue can reduce feelings of worry, separation and emotional distance.
Lastly, remember that it’s perfectly normal to fall into the stubborn habit of reading each other. You are in a relationship. You know each other. You have spent an enormous amount of time together.
So, it’s okay to have to freshen the relationship up every so often. If you found this article helpful, take a look at my new book: Couple’s Workbook: Making Your Relationship Work . The link to the book does include an affiliate link, this is shared to highlight transparency.
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