Communication Guidelines
- Be calm – and so have awareness and if needed, ask for time outs.
- Be specific – avoid generalisations.
- Avoid blame and who is right discussions
- Acknowledge your partners feelings and point of view
- Speak non-defensively by changing your mindset of your partner
- Use your imagination to creatively put yourself in your partner’s place.
- Be accountable for the things you say and do
- Stay with the recent past when you talk about your problems.
- Catch your partner doing something right and give them credit for it.
- Find pleasurable activities to do together