Sentences with phrase «hurt their partner emotionally»

This series looked at some of the reasons someone stays with a partner like Perry including: thinking it would be better for the children to have their parents be together, belief that their partner can change, love and compassion for their partner, not wanting to hurt their partner emotionally, and fear of what others would think if the relationship failed or the truth about the violence was known.

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Emotionally charged discussions can turn ugly in a heartbeat, and reassuring your partner of his or her best qualities can buffer any hurt feelings that might start to arise in either of you.

It is important for you to find a partner, but not rushing into things and remembering to mentally step back and evaluate your relationships will also help you to reach your goals faster: How would it benefit you to rush in and get hurt emotionally or financially?

One roadblock in our ability to be there emotionally with our partner is our hurt and anger.

Has anyone ever been hurt emotionally by events related to your sexual behavior, e.g., lying to partner or friends, not showing up for event / appointment due to sexual liaisons, etc.?

Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy (EFT) is a structured model of therapy that has been proven time and time again to help couples recover from the hurt of an affair, reconnect with their partner on a deep emotional level, and build happier, more resilient marriages.

There are at least two strategies for dealing with this attachment insecurity: (a) become preoccupied with relational partners by being overly sensitive to partner's emotional moves and developing a sustained expectation that partner's will eventually betray or abandon them (i.e., attachment anxiety), and / or (b) avoid developing relationships of any significant emotional depth to avoid getting hurt in the first place, which often leads insecurely attached individuals to become emotionally aloof, overly fixated with self - reliance, and emotionally unavailable to others in times of need (i.e., attachment avoidance).

This negative pattern can easily develop once partners feel hurt or invalidated in small ways and therefore begin to pull away emotionally to protect themselves.

A repair technique is when one partner uses good tact to help the other partner emotionally recover from feeling hurt during a conflict.

That would would defeat the purpose of doing it separately to help you both feel emotionally safe to answer honestly without worrying about hurting your partner's feelings or repercussions.

Jealousy is an emotionally healthy couple's signal to soothe the hurting partner, set up relationship protecting boundaries and be totally open about e-mails, cell phone and online chat accounts.

Do you and your partner argue with each other to the extent where one or both of you feels emotionally hurt?

No one deserves to have their partner or spouse hurt them emotionally, physically, or sexually.

The withdrawing partner becomes more emotionally engaged, and the more angry partner works to express his or her hurts and fears.

Learning and practicing having healthy conflict management skills provides you the opportunity as a couple to resolve an issue, avoid emotionally hurting one another, and give way to know and understand your partner at a deeper level.