Seven Effective Tools to Deal with Stress in Your Relationship

It doesn’t take a genius to know that your relationship is worse off when you or your partner are under stress. A fight with your friend, money woes, that nasty commute, little Jimmy’s newly diagnosed gluten allergy, and those long work days bleed over into your relationship. The research shows that the more frustrations and issues people had outside the home, the more stress they had in their relationship and the less satisfied they felt with it! Stress will kill your relationship faster than almost anything else. But I’m here to help! Today we’ll talk about a new way to look at handling stress and my top seven effective tools to deal with stress in your relationship.

Chapters

0:00 Intro
4:53 Stress and Your Brain
9:00 Instead of Fight, Flight, or Freeze, think Tend and Befriend
20:53 #1 Promote relaxation!
22:39 #2 Make it a priority to get good sleep
23:28 #3 Reprioritize
25:25 #4 Say yes first
27:10 #5 Ask for help
27:47 #6 Increase your positive emotions
30:59 #7 Get Perspective

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