Emotional Intelligence for Couples Simple Ways to Increase the Communication in Your Relationship

Name: Emotional Intelligence for Couples Simple Ways to Increase the Communication in Your Relationship
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ISBN: 9781596528284

ISBN-10: 1596528281

ISBN-13: 9781596528284

Edition: 2011

Authors: John Lee

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From best-selling relationship expert comes a common-sense guide to help you and your partner increase your emotional intelligence, teaching you practical ways to express your feelings and strengthen your relationship. What makes a relationship healthy? Most men and women will respond that it¿s good communication¿to be able to openly express their own thoughts and feelings, and to better understand their partner¿s. Emotional Intelligence for Couples explains basic principles of emotional intelligence to equip you with common-sense ways to express your feelings, allowing you to enjoy greater intimacy, clearer communication, and a deeper connection than you have ever known. Discover answers…

Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Publication date: 9/6/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 133
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.90" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English

CeliaandJohn Leeare Honorary Research Fellows of the Centre for First World War Studies at the University of Birmingham, members of the British Commission for Military History, the Gallipoli Association, the Western Front Association, the Douglas Haig Fellowship, the Churchill Center (UK), and the Biographers' Club.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Establishing boundaries: taking the first step to increase emotional intelligence



Stopping boundary errors and violations from occurring



Defending your boundaries



Knowing your limits



Recapping: boundaries and limits



Discovering how codependency still affects your life after all these years



Practicing a four-step model of grief work that increases emotional intelligence



Understanding boundaries, limits, and grief work through an adult fairy tale



Experiencing and expressing anger appropriately



Stopping confusing anger and rage



Identifying the en-rager and the out-rager



Recognizing emotional regression



Eliminating the triggers for regression



Seeing the signals that you or someone else is regressing



Working our way out of passivity: the hidden element that limits emotional intelligence



Becoming a more compassionate person



Engaging in active loving



Understanding that wanting and needing are two different things



Identifying and pursuing your passion



Getting out of the triangle tangle



Separating versus isolating



Making an appropriate apology



Making amends and becoming emotionally mature



Being happy rather than right all the time