

Stress and Relationships Week 4: What Else Can I Do For My Partner?
All month I have been sharing different tips and tricks to help lessen the stress on your relationships and create a relationship filled with emotional closeness, renewed intimacy and, if done right, could even revive their romance. Relationships are not all rainbows and sprinkles… it takes a lot of work to create an amazing relationship. Everyday stress, compounded by pandemic stress has created a whole new type of relationship stress that can put strain on even the most res


Stress and Relationships Week 3: Connect, Console, Comfort and Compassion
This month I have been sharing different tips and tricks to help lessen the stress on your relationships. I think we all know that relationships are not all rainbows and sprinkles… it takes a lot of work to create an amazing relationship. Every day stress, compounded by pandemic stress has created a whole new type of relationship stress that can put strain on even the most resilient couples. The good news is that when couples can create functional ways of coping with stress t


Stress and Relationships Week 2: Listening Skills
A key component to having a strong relationship is to have impeccable listening skills. The benefits of being a great listener can offer you a deeper connection to the other person as well as showing that you value their needs and ideas without being judged. Being a great listener will reduce stress between those involved since the other person feels understood and appreciated. The defense mode isn’t activated and there is more clarity in the discussion. Good communication sk


February 2021 FSW Blogs Stress and Relationships Week 1: Relationship with Significant Other
“Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And when it subsides, you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion, it is not the desire to mate every second minute of the day, it is not lying awake at night imagin