Do you know how to protect a relationship during transition at work or in your life? Instead of focusing on circumstances or on what your partner isn’t doing right, focus on how to protect your relationship and keep the connection between the two of you strong.
Ideas To Protect A Relationship During Transition And Strengthen Your Bond With Each Other
• Communicate openly and honestly about your thoughts, needs, feelings, hopes, and dreams
• Be transparent in your relationship, giving your partner a chance to know how you feel so you can grow together and not apart
• Listen carefully to your partner without judgment, and let them know what you’ve heard them say to allow for clarification if necessary
• Make time once a week (or at least twice a month) for date night and protect that precious time together
• Set boundaries around your needs as a couple, considering your responsibilities as parents—remembering you are modeling for your children how a healthy couple functions
• It takes a village – build a strong support system of family and other healthy couples to enrich your relationship and anchor you when life challenges and transitions occur
• Reach out for professional help when some of life’s transitions become too overwhelming.
Hope For Your Relationship
I have worked with many couples during my career who were stressed and without hope for the future of their relationship. Through dialogue and creating a safe environment, many found their way back to each other to create an even stronger relationship than they had before transitions at work or in their lives happened. Protect a relationship in transition—yours—and contact me for more life and work transition tools and resources.