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  1. Relationships: You can reduce your reactivity thru deep breathing exercises coupled with a visualization of tough communication scenarios.
  2. Relationships: Your current reactivity is largely based on your relationship template or your childhood experience of relationships.
  3. Relationships: If you hear your partner are you agreeing with them? The answer is "no".
  4. Relationships: How reactive are you to what your partner does and says?
  5. Relationships: Where is the balance between truly hearing your partner and staying true to yourself?
  6. Relationships: How dependent are your communication choices on what your partner does?
  7. Relationships: Take a common dysfunctional scenario, describe it and write a new scenario for your behaviors. What will you do and say?
  8. Relationships: What are healthy relationship patterns? What do functional relationship choices look like? Describe them.
  9. Relationships: make the old patterns of dysfunction irrelevant by practicing new ones repeatedly.
  10. Relationships: you can retrain your brain thru the repetition of healthy behaviors.
  11. Relationships: were your childhood relationships contentious and unpredictable? That's your relationship template.
  12. Relationships: childhood trains your brain. Is that training still valid?
  13. everydayhealth.com/erectile-dysfu…
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  15. everydayhealth.com/erectile-dysfu…
  16. what are the risks of more direct communication? what are the potential gains? do you avoid all "conflict" and with it greater intimacy?
  17. what message is embedded in behavior? is it intended or not? what do our actions say that our words do not?
  18. wouldn't it be gr8 if our partners communicated as well as we think we do?
  19. New Interracial Marriage Stats: huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/16/int…
  20. Motivation: what would you be doing today if you were taking some of your own advice?