Relationships grow with attentive listening and accurate understanding of one another. Apply five practical listening skills for tuning in to your partner. Experience the power of the Listening Cycle TM for getting to the heart of your partner's concern. The way you and your partner handle conflicts determines your satisfaction with the outcomes and each other. Set comfortable procedures for managing conflicts.
Partners respond as much to how something is said as to what is said.
Recognize the positive and negative impacts of each style. Apply skills to increase meaningful conversations or decrease stressful exchanges. Understand the impact of mixed messages and how to deal with them. I skills and concepts. Our arguments were literally mine fields.