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HEALING TOXIC RELATIONSHIPS: HOW TO TALK SO YOUR PARTNER LISTENS
FOR SINGLES AND COUPLES

This seminar looks at ways to break the destructive cycles in relationships and develop new positives strategies of relating to each other. It examines how family backgrounds have a negative influence on adult relationships. Whether you are in a relationship or taking a time out from one, this seminar was created to help you understand your communication style and why you behave in ways that damage the intimacy you're searching for.

What You Will Learn:

• The four marriage destroyers that are most damaging to marriages and how to change them.
• How to ask open-ended question to encourage your partner to share his or her feelings.
• How ordering, threatening, preaching and interrogating blocks communication.
• How to stop the spiral of anger.
• How to share intimate feelings and desires with your partner without creating conflict.
• Ways to practice active listening so that you really hear what your partner is trying to communicate.
• How problems in a relationship create emotional distance and how to bridge that distance with nurturing and understanding.
• The nine tasks of a successful marriage.
• Why marriages succeed or fail.
• How stress styles affect a relationship.

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Contact Mark Felber and schedule this series for your group.

Office:
Human Connections Counseling Services
Plano, Texas

Phone: (214) 796-2323

E-mail: mark@marriagecpr.com

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