During trying and difficult times, what with the onset of global recession and the repercussions that entail and the anxiety and mulling over financial statuses, there are increased stress levels that directly affect relationships. It is of utmost importance for you and others like you to ensure that your relationships are in good condition and consistently work on increasing the quality of them. It is said that the quality of a person’s life is affected the least by what actually happens and the most by how he or she reacts to what has happened. There are a lot of things that are simply not under our control, however our reaction to them is another issue altogether. These are the things that Landmark Education helps people deal with in their courses.
With regard to how we as human beings react, we will look at how our finances and relationships are affected. To be more specific by way of an instance from Landmark Education, due to disparities in finances and relationships, it is clear that any given person may have thoughts, opinions, ideologies and perspectives on the same. However, all of these are clearly removed from the situation and it is these factors that affect a person the most. For instance, the 401 k may have dropped 50% and that is what possibly happened. In addition to this are our own interpretations like “We are never going to get out of this financial scenario” or “The future looks extremely bleak from here on”. These reactions are the ones that actually matter. The more one focuses on the statements like these, the more real they become and this “reality” often hits hard.
What could enable you to move forward as an individual and as a couple would be removing the situation from perceptions and dealing with the situation alone and coming up with an alternate plan.
Here are some exercises from Landmark Education that can help couple keep relationships strong no matter what the economic situation:
1. Discussing the situation together
Sitting down and discussing things, as a couple, objectively help bring some perspective on the situation and as an added bonus, even gives you an excuse to spend time with each other. Also, writing things down helps in getting your facts right.
2. Also, pay close attention to what has been “added” to the situation by you.
Interpretations for any given situation, is not always reliable and they add to your troubles more than it needs to and keeps you from understanding what could be possible in getting you out.
3. Working together towards answers work better
Effectively using your creativity gives you an opportunity to come up with a back - up plan for the situation at hand. There could be instances where either of you will feel blame or guilt but these things are to be overlooked completely.
In conclusion, only 1% of what affects you is from what happened and 99% is from how you interpret the whole problem. Landmark Education teaches these different methods and enables couples to work together as a couple which in turn helps increase intimacy between them.
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