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Managing Stress from Within Your Relationship

The Gottman Institute

Reduce stress in your relationship by reassessing the state of your partnership.

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How to Set Goals for Self-Care

Ellie Lisitsa

Set goals, big and small, to take care of yourself and watch both you and your relationships get a boost of energy.

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Building Trust In Stressful Times

Ellie Lisitsa

If you establish positive rapport, you and your partner can make leaps and bounds towards the establishment of trust.

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Avoiding Loss Aversion In Arguments

Ellie Lisitsa

Loss aversion is what happens when partners invest so much into their disputes that neither one can stand the thought of losing.

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Mindfulness in Emotional Moments

Ellie Lisitsa

Watch how mindfulness allows you to increase your attention to mechanisms underlying the formation of stable, satisfying relationships. 

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Expressing Compassion and Empathy

Expressing Compassion and Empathy

Ellie Lisitsa

Intimate conversation requires you to lean into your partner's pain before you offer advice or try to help.

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Following Up With Statements That Deepen Connection

Ellie Lisitsa

When you can reflect what your partner is sharing, you encourage them to open up more and intimacy follows.

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Putting Your Feelings into Words and Asking Open-Ended Questions

Put Feelings Into Words and Ask Open-Ended Questions

Ellie Lisitsa

Enjoy more intimate conversations by learning to label your emotions and asking questions that beg for a detailed response.

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Intimate Conversations and Collective Monologue

Ellie Lisitsa

Stop having superficial conversations where you're talking but not communicating.

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The Zeigarnik Effect

Ellie Lisitsa

This theory discovered an enormous capacity to destroy human relationships.

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Sliding Door Moments

‘Sliding Door’ Moments

Ellie Lisitsa

Sliding door moments are the seemingly inconsequential everyday moments that make or break the most important relationships in our lives.

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