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Improving Communication in Your Relationship – 3 Important Tips

Becoming a better listener is the first part in practicing your communication skills. It is when you really listen to your partner that you will find out what is really going on. Often we make assumptions based on past experiences and fail to notice changes.

Start to practice listening by summarizing and feeding back to your partner what you have heard. Refrain from paraphrasing and adding your own interpretation. Ask clarifying questions, even if you think you know. Let your partner know that you have your own idea of what you think they mean but you are genuinely interested in what THEY meant.

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Working Long Hours – The Effect on Your Relationship

Being part of the ‘Living in Australia’* research study I recently received their information and insight brochure. According to the their research study ‘Working long hours – it’s good for your marriage’ and you now have reason to work more! The research implies that being obsessed in your job is no longer the sin it used to be.

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Working Through Childhood Issues

Have you ever realised that you have different attitudes in bringing up your children than your partner? I bet you have, otherwise you might be partly in denial or not be too involved in the education of them. The reason why the attitudes differ might be connected to the differences in your unresolved childhood issues.

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The Ugly Truth About Men and Women

Since the release of the comedy ‘The Ugly Truth,’ the male-female intimate relationship structures are again under observation. Even though it is a comedy revisiting the old and well-known cliché of male and female differences it still leaves couples and singles going home and re-thinking the gender differences. Here are the film’s quotes: The Ugly

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Top 10 of the most popular ‘Ugly Truths’

Below are the Top 10 of the most popular ‘Ugly Truths’ as voted by the public on the Sony Pictures website to the film ‘The Ugly Truth’ with Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler that recently came out in the cinemas near you. 10 popular truth about relationships 1. You can’t make someone fall in love

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