All relationships take work to help them function healthily – but what can you do when bonds urgently need repairing? Here’s advice from therapists on how to build better connections with everyone in your life, from your mother to your manager.
Headlines:
- Communication is key
- Make time to talk
- Listen to and acknowledge the other person’s feelings
- Be yourself within relationships
- Report rather than act out any issues
- Embrace arguing (occasionally)
- Lower your expectations of others
- Hurtful comments can come from a place of love
- If you aren’t close to family, don’t force it
- Say sorry when necessary
- Accept that relationships with children often aren’t what we hoped for
- When faced with really challenging behaviour, look back
- Reboot yourself before you try to reboot a relationship
- Schedule planning meetings
- Don’t expect problems to be resolved quickly
- Avoid fighting over who is right or wrong
- Work out what you can change yourself
- Consider whether friendships are worth salvaging
- In the workplace, treat others as you wish to be treated
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2024/sep/26/the-experts-therapists-on-19-ways-to-have-much-happier-healthier-relationships. 2,600 words. One to three paragraphs on each item.
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