Emotional Intelligence for Couples

by Lee, John

• ISBN13: 9781596528284
• ISBN10: 1596528281
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781596529267
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-09-06
• Publisher: Turner Pub Co
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Summary

From best-selling relationship expert comes a common-sense guide to help you and your partner increase your emotional intelligence, teaching you practical ways to express your feelings and strengthen your relationship. What makes a relationship healthy? Most men and women will respond that it¿s good communication¿to be able to openly express their own thoughts and feelings, and to better understand their partner¿s. Emotional Intelligence for Couples explains basic principles of emotional intelligence to equip you with common-sense ways to express your feelings, allowing you to enjoy greater intimacy, clearer communication, and a deeper connection than you have ever known. Discover answers to questions like: What actions and behaviors will make our relationship healthier? How can we practice healthy arguing and recognize healthy anger? How can we prevent our criticism, manipulation, and blame games? Why do I need personal boundaries?

Author Biography

With 25 years of experience as a trainer, speaker, consultant, teacher, and coach, John Lee is the best-selling author of The Flying Boy: Healing the Wounded Man; The Anger Solution: The Proven Method for Achieving Calm and Developing Healthy; Long-Lasting Relationships: and 16 other titles. He has been featured on Oprah, 20/20, The View, CNN, PBS, and NPR. He lives with his wife in Alabama.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Establishing boundaries: taking the first step to increase emotional intelligence	p. 1
Stopping boundary errors and violations from occurring	p. 9
Defending your boundaries	p. 13
Knowing your limits	p. 19
Recapping: boundaries and limits	p. 25
Discovering how codependency still affects your life after all these years	p. 29
Practicing a four-step model of grief work that increases emotional intelligence	p. 33
Understanding boundaries, limits, and grief work through an adult fairy tale	p. 41
Experiencing and expressing anger appropriately	p. 49
Stopping confusing anger and rage	p. 61
Identifying the en-rager and the out-rager	p. 69
Recognizing emotional regression	p. 73
Eliminating the triggers for regression	p. 77
Seeing the signals that you or someone else is regressing	p. 83
Working our way out of passivity: the hidden element that limits emotional intelligence	p. 93
Becoming a more compassionate person	p. 99
Engaging in active loving	p. 103
Understanding that wanting and needing are two different things	p. 107
Identifying and pursuing your passion	p. 111
Getting out of the triangle tangle	p. 115
Separating versus isolating	p. 119
Making an appropriate apology	p. 123
Making amends and becoming emotionally mature	p. 127
Being happy rather than right all the time	p. 131
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