Women tend to bring up problem and work on improving relationships. This make men feel pressured, because they feel like their hard work is under appreciated. Women need to let men feel less pressure.
Men need to consider hormonal change during menstrual cycle can hugely impact women's mood (women are more irritable). Also men need to make women feel loved by asking questions about their feeling/emotion. Men should focus on empathize, not providing a solution for women.
4 Predictive Factors of Bad/Terminated Relationship
Criticize: 對人不對事
Defense: 反駁,互相指責/互揭傷疤
Mocking:嘲諷(最大殺傷力)
Abadonment: 拒絕溝通
5 Steps process of communicating fight event
Avoid escalating fight by mirroring emotion
Set alone time to self soothe
Talk about triggering event,talk about their point of view
The other partner summarize what she/he heard about
invite partner to talk what emotion is triggered, story related to the triggered emotion
Talk about what could be done differently (both partner) to avoid same fight
Intimacy Ritual
Partner嘗試R水吹時要正面回應
Pre plan:
How to spend time together
去邊,做咩
What to talk about
E.g. things you like, things you hate about the year
Relationship Review (every few week)
Set Questionnaire (co-design~10)
What make you feel bad
What triggers to review
From How to not die alone
Meetings (create your own context)
Appreciation things your partner have done for you
Triggers that needed to be processed
One way partner can do for each other to feel more loved
8 dates: conversation to go through each date, with sample of how the date would look like