Find Healthy Ways to Manage Stress

Managing stress in a relationship is essential to keep ruptures to a minimum. Ruptures cause damage and reducing the frequency and quantity of ruptures is one of the best things you can do to keep your relationship from disintegrating.Exercising restraint can be one of your most valuable skills in intimate relationships. Restraining from letting it all out or saying it like it is....

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 * 1)  Restrain yourself.  When you are angry or hurt, restrain your expression of these emotions. Not to say that you need to deny you are angry or hurt, but restraint exercised in the heat of the moment will serve you well. Create space and time for reflection and calming of self and situation.[[Image:Find Healthy Ways to Manage Stress Step 1.jpg|center]]
 * 2)  Create and keep Space.  When you have had a little time between you and the emotion that has bothered you, you may be more capable of communicating your feelings without the energy of such intense emotions like anger.[[Image:Find Healthy Ways to Manage Stress Step 2.jpg|center]]

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