Christine Carter

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Stoke the Fire in Your Relationship

This Week’s Practice

• This week, put some energy into your relationship. How can you best improve it?
• Do you need to dedicate more mind/heart space to your partner?
• Do you need to foster more admiration, fondness, and appreciation?
• How frequently do you “turn towards” your partner?
• What special family celebrations, traditions, and routines do you have? Can you add more?

The Takeaway:
Your relationship is only as good as the energy you put into it. Research shows that passion can last a lifetime — it needn’t fade!

Keep Working On…
Your new conflict resolution skills:

• Practice expressing appreciation and using “I statements” when you raise an issue
• Staying calm during an argument
• Accepting the influence of your partner when you are in a disagreement

Join the Discussion
How have you kept the flames alive? What suggestions do you have for games, date night activities, and favorite family traditions?

Weekly Thoughts

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.”–Rainer Maria Rilke

There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.”–George Sand

Once in awhile, right in the middle of an ordinary life, love gives us a fairy tale.”–anonymous quotation