Sentences with phrase «emotional bid for connection»

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Brown then connected her story to something that happens all the time in business situations, too: «What can be the emotional response when you push out a bid for connection with someone, and they push you away and reject that bid?»

Since they didn't know how to value their own emotional experiences, they knew even less how to value their partner's, how to use emotion to guide effective problem - solving, or how to turn towards bids for connection and make repairs when things went off track.

When our partners do not respond and turn away or against our bids for emotional connection, we begin to lose trust in them.

After reading this article, I have determined that I am largely to blame as I have been turning away from most of my husband's bids for emotional connection.

When Dr. Gottman talks about sliding door moments in dynamics between couples, he emphasizes the way that healthy couples build awareness of each other's style of making bids for emotional connection.

In all three examples the other person's «bid» for emotional connection was acknowledged and, in the last two examples this acknowledgement included the added bonus of making a plan for further interaction and emotional connection.

If you fail to respond to a text message, even if its unintentional, your partner may feel that you have turned away from their bid for emotional connection.

In fact, you will miss most of your partner's bids for emotional connection out of mindlessness.

Learning the language of emotional connection is very important to me and I find that when i look at someone and the person does not acknowledge my bid for connecting by looking back something is lost, an intimate moment is lost.

People frequently make «bids» for emotional connection and that these attempts to connect with those around us can take a variety of forms.

Turn Toward Each Other Instead of Away When a partner makes a bid for your attention, affection, humor or support, turning toward your partner is the basis of emotional connection.

1) Turning Toward means to react in a positive way to another's bid for attention / emotional connection.

Gay couples turned towards their partners» bids for emotional connection during sex.

Only three in ten of their bids for emotional connection were met with intimacy.

These venoms, with which you can poison your relationship, can all be characterized as ways of «turning against» each other's bids for emotional connection.

One of the greatest predictors of your relationship's success is your ability to turn towards each other, constantly developing your bond by making an effort every day to reach out to your partner and accept their bids for emotional connection.

Just as building your Love Maps are a great way to strengthen your friendship system, as we discussed on Monday, making a conscious effort to turn towards each other's bids for emotional connection will strengthen the emotional connection felt between the two of you.

Now that you are informed about the benefits of turning towards your partner's bids for emotional connection, here are some great ways to put it into practice this weekend:

A third way to keep your relationship in the Positive Perspective is to engage in what Dr. Gottman calls turning towards your partner's «bids» for emotional connection.

Turning towards means actively turning to your partner and replying to their small bids for emotional connection that they make throughout the day.

Be aware of bids for emotional connection and turn towards them.

It is a bid for emotional connection.

Bidding and responding to bids for emotional connection is probably not an explicit requirement of your job description.

Every time you turn towards your partner's bids for emotional connection, you are making a deposit in what Dr. Gottman calls your Emotional Bankemotional connection, you are making a deposit in what Dr. Gottman calls your Emotional BankEmotional Bank Account.

This particular study directly relates to building an Emotional Bank Account by taking the opportunity to Turn Towards your partner's bids for emotional connection in Sliding DoorEmotional Bank Account by taking the opportunity to Turn Towards your partner's bids for emotional connection in Sliding Dooremotional connection in Sliding Door Moments.

In Emotional Agility I talk about how this relates to Dr. Gottman's research on bids for connection.

The first process is to become aware of what your partner's moment - to - moment emotional desires are and deciding to «turn toward» these bids for connection (rather than turning away).

A response to your partner's bid is a negative or positive response to the request for emotional connection.