Personal Development – Lesson 1
Personal Relationships
My Personal Views on Relationship
-Communication
-Love our self-first
-good relationship
-to forgive
- our loved ones has nothing to do with our stress
- positive mindset
-- saying thank you
Personal Relationships – tight bonds developed between people as a result of
emotional bonding and interactions.
-it involves emotional intimacy, trust, mutual respect, personal connection.
-are relationships between people especially those friends, lovers, and family members.
Commitment – the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to course of
action and a message that makes a pledge.
Love – a strong affection for another arising out kiniship or personalities
ATTRACTION – the act, power, or property of attracting.
RESPONSIILITY- the social force that bids you to the courses of action demanded by
force.
3 kinds of Personal Relationship
- Family
- Friends
- Partnerships
ACCEPTABLE WAYS TO EXPRESS YOUR ATTRACTION
-Offer the gift of listening
- Say please and Thank You
- Tell your loved ones how much you love and appreciate them
- offer to help someone’s need
- Write a letter or send a card to someone you love and mail it
- write you loved ones a poem of gratitude
- practice the art of forgiveness
UNACCEPTABLE WAYS TO EXPRESS YOUR ATTRACTION
- Acting that you own him/her
- Acting weird when you are with him/her
- Obsession
- Stalk him/her on social media
25 MOST COMMON RELATIONSHIP PROBLEMS
1. Affairs/ Infidelity / Cheating
2. Sexual Issues
3. Significant Differences in core values and beliefs.
4. Life Stages – outgrown each other
5. Traumatic and/ or life changing events.
6. Prolonged period of stress
7. Bored in or with your relationship
8. Dealing with a jealous partner
9. Having blended family issues
10. Domestic violence
11. Knowing you should not have got married in the first place
12. Lack of responsibility regarding finances, children, health and many other issues
13. Unrealistic Expectations
14. Addictions
15. Excessive reliance on social media
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TEN RULES FOR FINDING LOVE AND CREATING LONG LASTING
RELATIONSHIPS
1. YOU MUST LOVE YOURSELF FIRST
2. PARTNERING IS A CHOICE MUSTNURTURE THE RELATIONSHIP FOR IT
TO THRIVE
3. CREATING LOVE IS A PROCESS
4. RELATIONSHIPS PROVIDE OPPURTUNITIES TO GROW
5. COMMUNICATION IS ESSENTIAL
6. NEGOTATION WILL BE REQUIRED
7. YOUR RELATIONSHIP WILL B CHALLENGED BY CHANGE
8. YOU MUST NURTURE THE REALATIONSHIP OR IT TO THRIVE
9. RENEWAL IS THE KEY TO LONGVITY
10. YOU WILL FORGET ALL THE MOMENT YOU FALL IN LOVE
KEEPING HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS
- Are treated with KINDNESS and RESPECT
- Are HONEST with each other
- Like to spend TIME together
- TAke an interest in things that are important to each other
- Respect one anothers emotional physical and sexual limits
- Can speak honestly about their feelings
