Connection Busters

This is the final blog in the Connection Buster series.  I hope you have found the other blogs helpful and have adopted some of the suggestions into your relationships.

In this blog, I will look at why people avoid certain conversations that are critical to the healthy growth of their relationship.

Cast your mind back to that last fight, do you recall asking or hearing your partner ask “Was it something that I said?” Well, maybe.  But more often than not it’s the things people don’t say that harm their relationships.

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I hope you have found the last 3 posts on ‘Connection Busters’ helpful and that as a relationship you have put some of those suggestions into practice.

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In this blog, we are going to look at the idea of becoming emotionally and physically overwhelmed during times of stress.

I’m going to invite you (for a moment) to recall the most recent fight you had with your partner.  As you bring this memory to mind, can you notice the subtle shifts that are starting to become activated within your body? By that I mean, pounding heart, sense of heat raising in the body, tightening of your gut, breath becoming shallower, palms starting to sweat, dry mouth/throat, the need to swallow, constriction in the chest, just to name a few.

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In the last blog, we looked at two of the six most commonly used connection busters I see in relationships.  In this blog I’m going to dive deep into the difference between Criticism and Complaints, I hope you will find the information helpful.

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Have you ever longed for your partner to acknowledge and connect with you in a way that makes you feel loved, cherished and supported? And instead, you feel dismissed and/or your request for connection is pushed aside or ignored? More