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Friday
Mar062009

Lose the Stress and Find Love

When you are stressed you can become less-than-careful with the person you love. You concentrate on your own situation and forget how it affects your partner. Soon you have a vast gulf in understanding, and ultimately this could lead to the breakdown of the relationship.

Stress of all kinds is the root cause of many relationship breakups. It could be related to your kids, your work situation, your intimate life, your communication or, a big one right now, your finances. Whatever the cause, when stress begins to fester in your life, it tends to become all-consuming, leaving little time left over to tend to the needs of your better half.

Meanwhile, the stress itself may be making you irritable, grumpy and hard to live with. It may be creating major fights over small things, or causing you to blame your stressed-out feelings on your partner, when in reality the cause has nothing to do with them.

When we are feeling stress of any kind it drains our inner batteries. And when we have no energy available for ourselves, we have even less energy available to share with others.”

Advice for women

Men primarily want to be king of their castle, to be loved unconditionally and to make their woman happy. Relationship ‘killers’ will cause your man to become stressed, frustrated or even aggressive and he will often withdraw. This destroys any chance of true intimacy.

Five ways women kill a relationship without realizing it…

1. By criticizing him.
2. By threatening or actually withdrawing love.
3. By not acknowledging or appreciating him.
4. By taking control.
5. By challenging him

Recommended book:

Why Mars and Venus Collide: Improving Relationships by Understanding How Men and Women Cope Differently with Stress

  

 

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