(5315,3,'2022-09-28 08:31:01','2022-09-28 08:31:01','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Course - Fight Less, Love More            \n        </h1>\n            <h2>\n                Lissy is featured in...            \n        </h2>\n		[elementor-template id=\"4440\"][elementor-template id=\"4443\"]		\n            Learn to Skilfully Communicate with your Partner &amp; Decrease Conflict        \n		<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This course has been designed to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you gain new insights into yourself and how you relate to your partner, focusing on thoughts and behaviours which can present challenges. Learning to communicate with your partner caringly, respectfully, and skilfully is essential for a happy relationship.</p>		\n			<pre data-line=\"\">\n				<code readonly=\"true\">\n					<xmp></xmp>\n				</code>\n			</pre>\n		<h3><b>Would you like to…</b></h3> <ul><li>Increase respect in your relationship <strong>without</strong> having to fight for it?</li><li>Feel deeper levels of love and connectedness <strong>without</strong> having to be in the ‘honeymoon’ phase?</li><li>Experience increased sexual connectedness <strong>without </strong>rejection?</li><li>Increase happiness and have a peaceful home <strong>without </strong>being triggered by your partner?</li></ul><p>Committed relationships are difficult. For many of us, our communication difficulties can lead to upsetting conflict. Over time, this hurts the relationship as partners often lose trust in each other and decrease their desire for emotional closeness and sexual connection. Prolonged, unresolved conflict and repeated cycles of blame can even result in the relationship ending.</p><p>This course has been created to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you to understand your own relationship and develop the skills needed to improve communication so that you and your partner become happier and more connected.</p><p>You will understand why couples <em>really</em> fight by leading expert <em>Lissy Abrahams. </em>You will be guided through strategies for ending the conflict using video content alongside a comprehensive workbook.</p><p>You can work through this course either individually or with your partner. When one partner alone makes positive changes, the relationship feels lighter and more connected. When partners do this course together, they go on a journey of discovery that is life-changing and increases intimacy. All you need is to print an additional workbook if doing it together!</p><h3><strong>This is achieved by working through modules, which involve:</strong></h3> <ol><li>Exploring how our capacity to relate to others (our relational wiring) is shaped by our early childhood experiences.</li><li>Understanding our own relational wiring and why we become reactive to certain triggers with our partner.</li><li>Understanding how our relational wiring can lead to conflict and hurtful communication between partners.</li><li>Understanding how our ego impacts conflict in couple relationships, and how this is linked to feeling safe or unsafe in our relationship.</li><li>Developing the necessary skills to calm down during conflict or preventing it.</li><li>Developing Couple Mindedness, an essential component for decreasing conflict and improving communication with our partner.</li><li>Developing the skills for respectful communication and improve listening, curiosity, respect, and empathy.</li></ol>','Fight Less, Love More - The Frae Special Offer','','inherit','closed','closed','','5311-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 08:31:01','2022-09-28 08:31:01','',5311,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5315',0,'revision','',0),(5316,3,'2022-09-28 08:32:15','2022-09-28 08:32:15','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Course - Fight Less, Love More            \n        </h1>\n            <h2>\n                Lissy is featured in...            \n        </h2>\n		[elementor-template id=\"4440\"][elementor-template id=\"4443\"]		\n            Learn to Skilfully Communicate with your Partner &amp; Decrease Conflict        \n		<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This course has been designed to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you gain new insights into yourself and how you relate to your partner, focusing on thoughts and behaviours which can present challenges. Learning to communicate with your partner caringly, respectfully, and skilfully is essential for a happy relationship.</p>		\n			<pre data-line=\"\">\n				<code readonly=\"true\">\n					<xmp></xmp>\n				</code>\n			</pre>\n		<h3><b>Would you like to…</b></h3> <ul><li>Increase respect in your relationship <strong>without</strong> having to fight for it?</li><li>Feel deeper levels of love and connectedness <strong>without</strong> having to be in the ‘honeymoon’ phase?</li><li>Experience increased sexual connectedness <strong>without </strong>rejection?</li><li>Increase happiness and have a peaceful home <strong>without </strong>being triggered by your partner?</li></ul><p>Committed relationships are difficult. For many of us, our communication difficulties can lead to upsetting conflict. Over time, this hurts the relationship as partners often lose trust in each other and decrease their desire for emotional closeness and sexual connection. Prolonged, unresolved conflict and repeated cycles of blame can even result in the relationship ending.</p><p>This course has been created to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you to understand your own relationship and develop the skills needed to improve communication so that you and your partner become happier and more connected.</p><p>You will understand why couples <em>really</em> fight by leading expert <em>Lissy Abrahams. </em>You will be guided through strategies for ending the conflict using video content alongside a comprehensive workbook.</p><p>You can work through this course either individually or with your partner. When one partner alone makes positive changes, the relationship feels lighter and more connected. When partners do this course together, they go on a journey of discovery that is life-changing and increases intimacy. All you need is to print an additional workbook if doing it together!</p><h3><strong>This is achieved by working through modules, which involve:</strong></h3> <ol><li>Exploring how our capacity to relate to others (our relational wiring) is shaped by our early childhood experiences.</li><li>Understanding our own relational wiring and why we become reactive to certain triggers with our partner.</li><li>Understanding how our relational wiring can lead to conflict and hurtful communication between partners.</li><li>Understanding how our ego impacts conflict in couple relationships, and how this is linked to feeling safe or unsafe in our relationship.</li><li>Developing the necessary skills to calm down during conflict or preventing it.</li><li>Developing Couple Mindedness, an essential component for decreasing conflict and improving communication with our partner.</li><li>Developing the skills for respectful communication and improve listening, curiosity, respect, and empathy.</li></ol>','Fight Less, Love More - The Frae Special Offer','','inherit','closed','closed','','5311-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 08:32:15','2022-09-28 08:32:15','',5311,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5316',0,'revision','',0),(5317,3,'2022-09-28 08:32:15','2022-09-28 08:32:15','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Course - Fight Less, Love More            \n        </h1>\n            <h2>\n                Lissy is featured in...            \n        </h2>\n		[elementor-template id=\"4440\"][elementor-template id=\"4443\"]		\n            Learn to Skilfully Communicate with your Partner &amp; Decrease Conflict        \n		<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This course has been designed to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you gain new insights into yourself and how you relate to your partner, focusing on thoughts and behaviours which can present challenges. Learning to communicate with your partner caringly, respectfully, and skilfully is essential for a happy relationship.</p>		\n			<pre data-line=\"\">\n				<code readonly=\"true\">\n					<xmp></xmp>\n				</code>\n			</pre>\n		<h3><b>Would you like to…</b></h3> <ul><li>Increase respect in your relationship <strong>without</strong> having to fight for it?</li><li>Feel deeper levels of love and connectedness <strong>without</strong> having to be in the ‘honeymoon’ phase?</li><li>Experience increased sexual connectedness <strong>without </strong>rejection?</li><li>Increase happiness and have a peaceful home <strong>without </strong>being triggered by your partner?</li></ul><p>Committed relationships are difficult. For many of us, our communication difficulties can lead to upsetting conflict. Over time, this hurts the relationship as partners often lose trust in each other and decrease their desire for emotional closeness and sexual connection. Prolonged, unresolved conflict and repeated cycles of blame can even result in the relationship ending.</p><p>This course has been created to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you to understand your own relationship and develop the skills needed to improve communication so that you and your partner become happier and more connected.</p><p>You will understand why couples <em>really</em> fight by leading expert <em>Lissy Abrahams. </em>You will be guided through strategies for ending the conflict using video content alongside a comprehensive workbook.</p><p>You can work through this course either individually or with your partner. When one partner alone makes positive changes, the relationship feels lighter and more connected. When partners do this course together, they go on a journey of discovery that is life-changing and increases intimacy. All you need is to print an additional workbook if doing it together!</p><h3><strong>This is achieved by working through modules, which involve:</strong></h3> <ol><li>Exploring how our capacity to relate to others (our relational wiring) is shaped by our early childhood experiences.</li><li>Understanding our own relational wiring and why we become reactive to certain triggers with our partner.</li><li>Understanding how our relational wiring can lead to conflict and hurtful communication between partners.</li><li>Understanding how our ego impacts conflict in couple relationships, and how this is linked to feeling safe or unsafe in our relationship.</li><li>Developing the necessary skills to calm down during conflict or preventing it.</li><li>Developing Couple Mindedness, an essential component for decreasing conflict and improving communication with our partner.</li><li>Developing the skills for respectful communication and improve listening, curiosity, respect, and empathy.</li></ol>','Fight Less, Love More - The Frae Special Offer','','inherit','closed','closed','','5311-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 08:32:15','2022-09-28 08:32:15','',5311,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5317',0,'revision','',0),(5318,3,'2022-09-28 08:32:16','2022-09-28 08:32:16','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Course - Fight Less, Love More            \n        </h1>\n            <h2>\n                Lissy is featured in...            \n        </h2>\n		[elementor-template id=\"4440\"][elementor-template id=\"4443\"]		\n            Learn to Skilfully Communicate with your Partner &amp; Decrease Conflict        \n		<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This course has been designed to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you gain new insights into yourself and how you relate to your partner, focusing on thoughts and behaviours which can present challenges. Learning to communicate with your partner caringly, respectfully, and skilfully is essential for a happy relationship.</p>		\n			<pre data-line=\"\">\n				<code readonly=\"true\">\n					<xmp></xmp>\n				</code>\n			</pre>\n		<h3><b>Would you like to…</b></h3> <ul><li>Increase respect in your relationship <strong>without</strong> having to fight for it?</li><li>Feel deeper levels of love and connectedness <strong>without</strong> having to be in the ‘honeymoon’ phase?</li><li>Experience increased sexual connectedness <strong>without </strong>rejection?</li><li>Increase happiness and have a peaceful home <strong>without </strong>being triggered by your partner?</li></ul><p>Committed relationships are difficult. For many of us, our communication difficulties can lead to upsetting conflict. Over time, this hurts the relationship as partners often lose trust in each other and decrease their desire for emotional closeness and sexual connection. Prolonged, unresolved conflict and repeated cycles of blame can even result in the relationship ending.</p><p>This course has been created to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you to understand your own relationship and develop the skills needed to improve communication so that you and your partner become happier and more connected.</p><p>You will understand why couples <em>really</em> fight by leading expert <em>Lissy Abrahams. </em>You will be guided through strategies for ending the conflict using video content alongside a comprehensive workbook.</p><p>You can work through this course either individually or with your partner. When one partner alone makes positive changes, the relationship feels lighter and more connected. When partners do this course together, they go on a journey of discovery that is life-changing and increases intimacy. All you need is to print an additional workbook if doing it together!</p><h3><strong>This is achieved by working through modules, which involve:</strong></h3> <ol><li>Exploring how our capacity to relate to others (our relational wiring) is shaped by our early childhood experiences.</li><li>Understanding our own relational wiring and why we become reactive to certain triggers with our partner.</li><li>Understanding how our relational wiring can lead to conflict and hurtful communication between partners.</li><li>Understanding how our ego impacts conflict in couple relationships, and how this is linked to feeling safe or unsafe in our relationship.</li><li>Developing the necessary skills to calm down during conflict or preventing it.</li><li>Developing Couple Mindedness, an essential component for decreasing conflict and improving communication with our partner.</li><li>Developing the skills for respectful communication and improve listening, curiosity, respect, and empathy.</li></ol>','Fight Less, Love More - The Frae Special Offer','','inherit','closed','closed','','5311-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 08:32:16','2022-09-28 08:32:16','',5311,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5318',0,'revision','',0),(5319,3,'2022-09-28 08:33:01','2022-09-28 08:33:01','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Course - Fight Less, Love More            \n        </h1>\n            <h2>\n                Lissy is featured in...            \n        </h2>\n		[elementor-template id=\"4440\"][elementor-template id=\"4443\"]		\n            Learn to Skilfully Communicate with your Partner &amp; Decrease Conflict        \n		<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This course has been designed to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you gain new insights into yourself and how you relate to your partner, focusing on thoughts and behaviours which can present challenges. Learning to communicate with your partner caringly, respectfully, and skilfully is essential for a happy relationship.</p>		\n			<pre data-line=\"\">\n				<code readonly=\"true\">\n					<xmp></xmp>\n				</code>\n			</pre>\n		<h3><b>Would you like to…</b></h3> <ul><li>Increase respect in your relationship <strong>without</strong> having to fight for it?</li><li>Feel deeper levels of love and connectedness <strong>without</strong> having to be in the ‘honeymoon’ phase?</li><li>Experience increased sexual connectedness <strong>without </strong>rejection?</li><li>Increase happiness and have a peaceful home <strong>without </strong>being triggered by your partner?</li></ul><p>Committed relationships are difficult. For many of us, our communication difficulties can lead to upsetting conflict. Over time, this hurts the relationship as partners often lose trust in each other and decrease their desire for emotional closeness and sexual connection. Prolonged, unresolved conflict and repeated cycles of blame can even result in the relationship ending.</p><p>This course has been created to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you to understand your own relationship and develop the skills needed to improve communication so that you and your partner become happier and more connected.</p><p>You will understand why couples <em>really</em> fight by leading expert <em>Lissy Abrahams. </em>You will be guided through strategies for ending the conflict using video content alongside a comprehensive workbook.</p><p>You can work through this course either individually or with your partner. When one partner alone makes positive changes, the relationship feels lighter and more connected. When partners do this course together, they go on a journey of discovery that is life-changing and increases intimacy. All you need is to print an additional workbook if doing it together!</p><h3><strong>This is achieved by working through modules, which involve:</strong></h3> <ol><li>Exploring how our capacity to relate to others (our relational wiring) is shaped by our early childhood experiences.</li><li>Understanding our own relational wiring and why we become reactive to certain triggers with our partner.</li><li>Understanding how our relational wiring can lead to conflict and hurtful communication between partners.</li><li>Understanding how our ego impacts conflict in couple relationships, and how this is linked to feeling safe or unsafe in our relationship.</li><li>Developing the necessary skills to calm down during conflict or preventing it.</li><li>Developing Couple Mindedness, an essential component for decreasing conflict and improving communication with our partner.</li><li>Developing the skills for respectful communication and improve listening, curiosity, respect, and empathy.</li></ol>','Fight Less, Love More - The Frae Special Offer','','inherit','closed','closed','','5311-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 08:33:01','2022-09-28 08:33:01','',5311,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5319',0,'revision','',0),(5320,3,'2022-09-28 08:33:02','2022-09-28 08:33:02','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Course - Fight Less, Love More            \n        </h1>\n            <h2>\n                Lissy is featured in...            \n        </h2>\n		[elementor-template id=\"4440\"][elementor-template id=\"4443\"]		\n            Learn to Skilfully Communicate with your Partner &amp; Decrease Conflict        \n		<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This course has been designed to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you gain new insights into yourself and how you relate to your partner, focusing on thoughts and behaviours which can present challenges. Learning to communicate with your partner caringly, respectfully, and skilfully is essential for a happy relationship.</p>		\n			<pre data-line=\"\">\n				<code readonly=\"true\">\n					<xmp></xmp>\n				</code>\n			</pre>\n		<h3><b>Would you like to…</b></h3> <ul><li>Increase respect in your relationship <strong>without</strong> having to fight for it?</li><li>Feel deeper levels of love and connectedness <strong>without</strong> having to be in the ‘honeymoon’ phase?</li><li>Experience increased sexual connectedness <strong>without </strong>rejection?</li><li>Increase happiness and have a peaceful home <strong>without </strong>being triggered by your partner?</li></ul><p>Committed relationships are difficult. For many of us, our communication difficulties can lead to upsetting conflict. Over time, this hurts the relationship as partners often lose trust in each other and decrease their desire for emotional closeness and sexual connection. Prolonged, unresolved conflict and repeated cycles of blame can even result in the relationship ending.</p><p>This course has been created to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you to understand your own relationship and develop the skills needed to improve communication so that you and your partner become happier and more connected.</p><p>You will understand why couples <em>really</em> fight by leading expert <em>Lissy Abrahams. </em>You will be guided through strategies for ending the conflict using video content alongside a comprehensive workbook.</p><p>You can work through this course either individually or with your partner. When one partner alone makes positive changes, the relationship feels lighter and more connected. When partners do this course together, they go on a journey of discovery that is life-changing and increases intimacy. All you need is to print an additional workbook if doing it together!</p><h3><strong>This is achieved by working through modules, which involve:</strong></h3> <ol><li>Exploring how our capacity to relate to others (our relational wiring) is shaped by our early childhood experiences.</li><li>Understanding our own relational wiring and why we become reactive to certain triggers with our partner.</li><li>Understanding how our relational wiring can lead to conflict and hurtful communication between partners.</li><li>Understanding how our ego impacts conflict in couple relationships, and how this is linked to feeling safe or unsafe in our relationship.</li><li>Developing the necessary skills to calm down during conflict or preventing it.</li><li>Developing Couple Mindedness, an essential component for decreasing conflict and improving communication with our partner.</li><li>Developing the skills for respectful communication and improve listening, curiosity, respect, and empathy.</li></ol>','Fight Less, Love More - The Frae Special Offer','','inherit','closed','closed','','5311-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 08:33:02','2022-09-28 08:33:02','',5311,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5320',0,'revision','',0),(5321,3,'2022-09-28 08:33:02','2022-09-28 08:33:02','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Course - Fight Less, Love More            \n        </h1>\n            <h2>\n                Lissy is featured in...            \n        </h2>\n		[elementor-template id=\"4440\"][elementor-template id=\"4443\"]		\n            Learn to Skilfully Communicate with your Partner &amp; Decrease Conflict        \n		<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This course has been designed to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you gain new insights into yourself and how you relate to your partner, focusing on thoughts and behaviours which can present challenges. Learning to communicate with your partner caringly, respectfully, and skilfully is essential for a happy relationship.</p>		\n			<pre data-line=\"\">\n				<code readonly=\"true\">\n					<xmp></xmp>\n				</code>\n			</pre>\n		<h3><b>Would you like to…</b></h3> <ul><li>Increase respect in your relationship <strong>without</strong> having to fight for it?</li><li>Feel deeper levels of love and connectedness <strong>without</strong> having to be in the ‘honeymoon’ phase?</li><li>Experience increased sexual connectedness <strong>without </strong>rejection?</li><li>Increase happiness and have a peaceful home <strong>without </strong>being triggered by your partner?</li></ul><p>Committed relationships are difficult. For many of us, our communication difficulties can lead to upsetting conflict. Over time, this hurts the relationship as partners often lose trust in each other and decrease their desire for emotional closeness and sexual connection. Prolonged, unresolved conflict and repeated cycles of blame can even result in the relationship ending.</p><p>This course has been created to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you to understand your own relationship and develop the skills needed to improve communication so that you and your partner become happier and more connected.</p><p>You will understand why couples <em>really</em> fight by leading expert <em>Lissy Abrahams. </em>You will be guided through strategies for ending the conflict using video content alongside a comprehensive workbook.</p><p>You can work through this course either individually or with your partner. When one partner alone makes positive changes, the relationship feels lighter and more connected. When partners do this course together, they go on a journey of discovery that is life-changing and increases intimacy. All you need is to print an additional workbook if doing it together!</p><h3><strong>This is achieved by working through modules, which involve:</strong></h3> <ol><li>Exploring how our capacity to relate to others (our relational wiring) is shaped by our early childhood experiences.</li><li>Understanding our own relational wiring and why we become reactive to certain triggers with our partner.</li><li>Understanding how our relational wiring can lead to conflict and hurtful communication between partners.</li><li>Understanding how our ego impacts conflict in couple relationships, and how this is linked to feeling safe or unsafe in our relationship.</li><li>Developing the necessary skills to calm down during conflict or preventing it.</li><li>Developing Couple Mindedness, an essential component for decreasing conflict and improving communication with our partner.</li><li>Developing the skills for respectful communication and improve listening, curiosity, respect, and empathy.</li></ol>','Fight Less, Love More - The Frae Special Offer','','inherit','closed','closed','','5311-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 08:33:02','2022-09-28 08:33:02','',5311,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5321',0,'revision','',0),(5323,3,'2022-09-28 08:38:40','2022-09-28 08:38:40','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Course - Fight Less, Love More            \n        </h1>\n            <h2>\n                Lissy is featured in...            \n        </h2>\n		[elementor-template id=\"4440\"][elementor-template id=\"4443\"]		\n            Learn to Skilfully Communicate with your Partner &amp; Decrease Conflict        \n		<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This course has been designed to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. 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Over time, this hurts the relationship as partners often lose trust in each other and decrease their desire for emotional closeness and sexual connection. Prolonged, unresolved conflict and repeated cycles of blame can even result in the relationship ending.</p><p>This course has been created to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you to understand your own relationship and develop the skills needed to improve communication so that you and your partner become happier and more connected.</p><p>You will understand why couples <em>really</em> fight by leading expert <em>Lissy Abrahams. </em>You will be guided through strategies for ending the conflict using video content alongside a comprehensive workbook.</p><p>You can work through this course either individually or with your partner. When one partner alone makes positive changes, the relationship feels lighter and more connected. When partners do this course together, they go on a journey of discovery that is life-changing and increases intimacy. All you need is to print an additional workbook if doing it together!</p><h3><strong>This is achieved by working through modules, which involve:</strong></h3> <ol><li>Exploring how our capacity to relate to others (our relational wiring) is shaped by our early childhood experiences.</li><li>Understanding our own relational wiring and why we become reactive to certain triggers with our partner.</li><li>Understanding how our relational wiring can lead to conflict and hurtful communication between partners.</li><li>Understanding how our ego impacts conflict in couple relationships, and how this is linked to feeling safe or unsafe in our relationship.</li><li>Developing the necessary skills to calm down during conflict or preventing it.</li><li>Developing Couple Mindedness, an essential component for decreasing conflict and improving communication with our partner.</li><li>Developing the skills for respectful communication and improve listening, curiosity, respect, and empathy.</li></ol>','Fight Less, Love More - The Frae Special Offer','','inherit','closed','closed','','5311-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 08:38:40','2022-09-28 08:38:40','',5311,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5323',0,'revision','',0),(5324,3,'2022-09-28 08:38:40','2022-09-28 08:38:40','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Course - Fight Less, Love More            \n        </h1>\n            <h2>\n                Lissy is featured in...            \n        </h2>\n		[elementor-template id=\"4440\"][elementor-template id=\"4443\"]		\n            Learn to Skilfully Communicate with your Partner &amp; Decrease Conflict        \n		<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This course has been designed to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. 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Over time, this hurts the relationship as partners often lose trust in each other and decrease their desire for emotional closeness and sexual connection. Prolonged, unresolved conflict and repeated cycles of blame can even result in the relationship ending.</p><p>This course has been created to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you to understand your own relationship and develop the skills needed to improve communication so that you and your partner become happier and more connected.</p><p>You will understand why couples <em>really</em> fight by leading expert <em>Lissy Abrahams. </em>You will be guided through strategies for ending the conflict using video content alongside a comprehensive workbook.</p><p>You can work through this course either individually or with your partner. When one partner alone makes positive changes, the relationship feels lighter and more connected. When partners do this course together, they go on a journey of discovery that is life-changing and increases intimacy. All you need is to print an additional workbook if doing it together!</p><h3><strong>This is achieved by working through modules, which involve:</strong></h3> <ol><li>Exploring how our capacity to relate to others (our relational wiring) is shaped by our early childhood experiences.</li><li>Understanding our own relational wiring and why we become reactive to certain triggers with our partner.</li><li>Understanding how our relational wiring can lead to conflict and hurtful communication between partners.</li><li>Understanding how our ego impacts conflict in couple relationships, and how this is linked to feeling safe or unsafe in our relationship.</li><li>Developing the necessary skills to calm down during conflict or preventing it.</li><li>Developing Couple Mindedness, an essential component for decreasing conflict and improving communication with our partner.</li><li>Developing the skills for respectful communication and improve listening, curiosity, respect, and empathy.</li></ol>','Fight Less, Love More - The Frae Special Offer','','inherit','closed','closed','','5311-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 08:38:40','2022-09-28 08:38:40','',5311,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5324',0,'revision','',0),(5325,3,'2022-09-28 08:38:40','2022-09-28 08:38:40','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Course - Fight Less, Love More            \n        </h1>\n            <h2>\n                Lissy is featured in...            \n        </h2>\n		[elementor-template id=\"4440\"][elementor-template id=\"4443\"]		\n            Learn to Skilfully Communicate with your Partner &amp; Decrease Conflict        \n		<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This course has been designed to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. 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Over time, this hurts the relationship as partners often lose trust in each other and decrease their desire for emotional closeness and sexual connection. Prolonged, unresolved conflict and repeated cycles of blame can even result in the relationship ending.</p><p>This course has been created to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you to understand your own relationship and develop the skills needed to improve communication so that you and your partner become happier and more connected.</p><p>You will understand why couples <em>really</em> fight by leading expert <em>Lissy Abrahams. </em>You will be guided through strategies for ending the conflict using video content alongside a comprehensive workbook.</p><p>You can work through this course either individually or with your partner. When one partner alone makes positive changes, the relationship feels lighter and more connected. When partners do this course together, they go on a journey of discovery that is life-changing and increases intimacy. All you need is to print an additional workbook if doing it together!</p><h3><strong>This is achieved by working through modules, which involve:</strong></h3> <ol><li>Exploring how our capacity to relate to others (our relational wiring) is shaped by our early childhood experiences.</li><li>Understanding our own relational wiring and why we become reactive to certain triggers with our partner.</li><li>Understanding how our relational wiring can lead to conflict and hurtful communication between partners.</li><li>Understanding how our ego impacts conflict in couple relationships, and how this is linked to feeling safe or unsafe in our relationship.</li><li>Developing the necessary skills to calm down during conflict or preventing it.</li><li>Developing Couple Mindedness, an essential component for decreasing conflict and improving communication with our partner.</li><li>Developing the skills for respectful communication and improve listening, curiosity, respect, and empathy.</li></ol>		\n			<pre data-line=\"\">\n				<code readonly=\"true\">\n					<xmp></xmp>\n				</code>\n			</pre>','Fight Less, Love More - The Frae Special Offer','','inherit','closed','closed','','5311-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 08:38:40','2022-09-28 08:38:40','',5311,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5325',0,'revision','',0),(5326,3,'2022-09-28 08:40:25','2022-09-28 08:40:25','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Course - Fight Less, Love More            \n        </h1>\n            <h2>\n                Lissy is featured in...            \n        </h2>\n		[elementor-template id=\"4440\"][elementor-template id=\"4443\"]		\n            Learn to Skilfully Communicate with your Partner &amp; Decrease Conflict        \n		<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This course has been designed to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. 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When partners do this course together, they go on a journey of discovery that is life-changing and increases intimacy. All you need is to print an additional workbook if doing it together!</p><h3><strong>This is achieved by working through modules, which involve:</strong></h3> <ol><li>Exploring how our capacity to relate to others (our relational wiring) is shaped by our early childhood experiences.</li><li>Understanding our own relational wiring and why we become reactive to certain triggers with our partner.</li><li>Understanding how our relational wiring can lead to conflict and hurtful communication between partners.</li><li>Understanding how our ego impacts conflict in couple relationships, and how this is linked to feeling safe or unsafe in our relationship.</li><li>Developing the necessary skills to calm down during conflict or preventing it.</li><li>Developing Couple Mindedness, an essential component for decreasing conflict and improving communication with our partner.</li><li>Developing the skills for respectful communication and improve listening, curiosity, respect, and empathy.</li></ol>		\n			<pre data-line=\"\">\n				<code readonly=\"true\">\n					<xmp></xmp>\n				</code>\n			</pre>','Fight Less, Love More - The Frae Special Offer','','inherit','closed','closed','','5311-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 08:40:25','2022-09-28 08:40:25','',5311,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5326',0,'revision','',0),(5327,3,'2022-09-28 08:40:25','2022-09-28 08:40:25','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Course - Fight Less, Love More            \n        </h1>\n            <h2>\n                Lissy is featured in...            \n        </h2>\n		[elementor-template id=\"4440\"][elementor-template id=\"4443\"]		\n            Learn to Skilfully Communicate with your Partner &amp; Decrease Conflict        \n		<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This course has been designed to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. 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Over time, this hurts the relationship as partners often lose trust in each other and decrease their desire for emotional closeness and sexual connection. Prolonged, unresolved conflict and repeated cycles of blame can even result in the relationship ending.</p><p>This course has been created to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you to understand your own relationship and develop the skills needed to improve communication so that you and your partner become happier and more connected.</p><p>You will understand why couples <em>really</em> fight by leading expert <em>Lissy Abrahams. </em>You will be guided through strategies for ending the conflict using video content alongside a comprehensive workbook.</p><p>You can work through this course either individually or with your partner. When one partner alone makes positive changes, the relationship feels lighter and more connected. When partners do this course together, they go on a journey of discovery that is life-changing and increases intimacy. All you need is to print an additional workbook if doing it together!</p><h3><strong>This is achieved by working through modules, which involve:</strong></h3> <ol><li>Exploring how our capacity to relate to others (our relational wiring) is shaped by our early childhood experiences.</li><li>Understanding our own relational wiring and why we become reactive to certain triggers with our partner.</li><li>Understanding how our relational wiring can lead to conflict and hurtful communication between partners.</li><li>Understanding how our ego impacts conflict in couple relationships, and how this is linked to feeling safe or unsafe in our relationship.</li><li>Developing the necessary skills to calm down during conflict or preventing it.</li><li>Developing Couple Mindedness, an essential component for decreasing conflict and improving communication with our partner.</li><li>Developing the skills for respectful communication and improve listening, curiosity, respect, and empathy.</li></ol>		\n			<pre data-line=\"\">\n				<code readonly=\"true\">\n					<xmp></xmp>\n				</code>\n			</pre>','Fight Less, Love More - The Frae Special Offer','','inherit','closed','closed','','5311-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 08:40:25','2022-09-28 08:40:25','',5311,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5327',0,'revision','',0),(5328,3,'2022-09-28 08:40:25','2022-09-28 08:40:25','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Course - Fight Less, Love More            \n        </h1>\n            <h2>\n                Lissy is featured in...            \n        </h2>\n		[elementor-template id=\"4440\"][elementor-template id=\"4443\"]		\n            Learn to Skilfully Communicate with your Partner &amp; Decrease Conflict        \n		<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This course has been designed to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. 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Over time, this hurts the relationship as partners often lose trust in each other and decrease their desire for emotional closeness and sexual connection. Prolonged, unresolved conflict and repeated cycles of blame can even result in the relationship ending.</p><p>This course has been created to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you to understand your own relationship and develop the skills needed to improve communication so that you and your partner become happier and more connected.</p><p>You will understand why couples <em>really</em> fight by leading expert <em>Lissy Abrahams. </em>You will be guided through strategies for ending the conflict using video content alongside a comprehensive workbook.</p><p>You can work through this course either individually or with your partner. When one partner alone makes positive changes, the relationship feels lighter and more connected. When partners do this course together, they go on a journey of discovery that is life-changing and increases intimacy. All you need is to print an additional workbook if doing it together!</p><h3><strong>This is achieved by working through modules, which involve:</strong></h3> <ol><li>Exploring how our capacity to relate to others (our relational wiring) is shaped by our early childhood experiences.</li><li>Understanding our own relational wiring and why we become reactive to certain triggers with our partner.</li><li>Understanding how our relational wiring can lead to conflict and hurtful communication between partners.</li><li>Understanding how our ego impacts conflict in couple relationships, and how this is linked to feeling safe or unsafe in our relationship.</li><li>Developing the necessary skills to calm down during conflict or preventing it.</li><li>Developing Couple Mindedness, an essential component for decreasing conflict and improving communication with our partner.</li><li>Developing the skills for respectful communication and improve listening, curiosity, respect, and empathy.</li></ol>','Fight Less, Love More - The Frae Special Offer','','inherit','closed','closed','','5311-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 08:40:25','2022-09-28 08:40:25','',5311,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5328',0,'revision','',0),(5329,3,'2022-09-28 08:41:10','2022-09-28 08:41:10','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Course - Fight Less, Love More            \n        </h1>\n            <h2>\n                Lissy is featured in...            \n        </h2>\n		[elementor-template id=\"4440\"][elementor-template id=\"4443\"]		\n            Learn to Skilfully Communicate with your Partner &amp; Decrease Conflict        \n		<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This course has been designed to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. 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All you need is to print an additional workbook if doing it together!</p><h3><strong>This is achieved by working through modules, which involve:</strong></h3> <ol><li>Exploring how our capacity to relate to others (our relational wiring) is shaped by our early childhood experiences.</li><li>Understanding our own relational wiring and why we become reactive to certain triggers with our partner.</li><li>Understanding how our relational wiring can lead to conflict and hurtful communication between partners.</li><li>Understanding how our ego impacts conflict in couple relationships, and how this is linked to feeling safe or unsafe in our relationship.</li><li>Developing the necessary skills to calm down during conflict or preventing it.</li><li>Developing Couple Mindedness, an essential component for decreasing conflict and improving communication with our partner.</li><li>Developing the skills for respectful communication and improve listening, curiosity, respect, and empathy.</li></ol>','Fight Less, Love More - The Frae Special Offer','','inherit','closed','closed','','5311-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 08:41:52','2022-09-28 08:41:52','',5311,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5334',0,'revision','',0),(5335,3,'2022-09-28 08:42:36','2022-09-28 08:42:36','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Course - Fight Less, Love More            \n        </h1>\n            <h2>\n                Lissy is featured in...            \n        </h2>\n		[elementor-template id=\"4440\"][elementor-template id=\"4443\"]		\n            Learn to Skilfully Communicate with your Partner &amp; Decrease Conflict        \n		<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This course has been designed to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. 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All you need is to print an additional workbook if doing it together!</p><h3><strong>This is achieved by working through modules, which involve:</strong></h3> <ol><li>Exploring how our capacity to relate to others (our relational wiring) is shaped by our early childhood experiences.</li><li>Understanding our own relational wiring and why we become reactive to certain triggers with our partner.</li><li>Understanding how our relational wiring can lead to conflict and hurtful communication between partners.</li><li>Understanding how our ego impacts conflict in couple relationships, and how this is linked to feeling safe or unsafe in our relationship.</li><li>Developing the necessary skills to calm down during conflict or preventing it.</li><li>Developing Couple Mindedness, an essential component for decreasing conflict and improving communication with our partner.</li><li>Developing the skills for respectful communication and improve listening, curiosity, respect, and empathy.</li></ol>','Fight Less, Love More - The Frae Special Offer','','inherit','closed','closed','','5311-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 08:43:18','2022-09-28 08:43:18','',5311,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5340',0,'revision','',0),(5341,3,'2022-09-28 08:43:52','2022-09-28 08:43:52','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Course - Fight Less, Love More            \n        </h1>\n            <h2>\n                Lissy is featured in...            \n        </h2>\n		[elementor-template id=\"4440\"][elementor-template id=\"4443\"]		\n            Learn to Skilfully Communicate with your Partner &amp; Decrease Conflict        \n		<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This course has been designed to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. 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All you need is to print an additional workbook if doing it together!</p><h3><strong>This is achieved by working through modules, which involve:</strong></h3> <ol><li>Exploring how our capacity to relate to others (our relational wiring) is shaped by our early childhood experiences.</li><li>Understanding our own relational wiring and why we become reactive to certain triggers with our partner.</li><li>Understanding how our relational wiring can lead to conflict and hurtful communication between partners.</li><li>Understanding how our ego impacts conflict in couple relationships, and how this is linked to feeling safe or unsafe in our relationship.</li><li>Developing the necessary skills to calm down during conflict or preventing it.</li><li>Developing Couple Mindedness, an essential component for decreasing conflict and improving communication with our partner.</li><li>Developing the skills for respectful communication and improve listening, curiosity, respect, and empathy.</li></ol>','Fight Less, Love More - The Frae Special Offer','','inherit','closed','closed','','5311-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 08:43:52','2022-09-28 08:43:52','',5311,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5341',0,'revision','',0),(5342,3,'2022-09-28 08:43:52','2022-09-28 08:43:52','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Course - Fight Less, Love More            \n        </h1>\n            <h2>\n                Lissy is featured in...            \n        </h2>\n		[elementor-template id=\"4440\"][elementor-template id=\"4443\"]		\n            Learn to Skilfully Communicate with your Partner &amp; Decrease Conflict        \n		<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This course has been designed to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. 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Over time, this hurts the relationship as partners often lose trust in each other and decrease their desire for emotional closeness and sexual connection. Prolonged, unresolved conflict and repeated cycles of blame can even result in the relationship ending.</p><p>This course has been created to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you to understand your own relationship and develop the skills needed to improve communication so that you and your partner become happier and more connected.</p><p>You will understand why couples <em>really</em> fight by leading expert <em>Lissy Abrahams. </em>You will be guided through strategies for ending the conflict using video content alongside a comprehensive workbook.</p><p>You can work through this course either individually or with your partner. When one partner alone makes positive changes, the relationship feels lighter and more connected. 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Over time, this hurts the relationship as partners often lose trust in each other and decrease their desire for emotional closeness and sexual connection. Prolonged, unresolved conflict and repeated cycles of blame can even result in the relationship ending.</p><p>This course has been created to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you to understand your own relationship and develop the skills needed to improve communication so that you and your partner become happier and more connected.</p><p>You will understand why couples <em>really</em> fight by leading expert <em>Lissy Abrahams. </em>You will be guided through strategies for ending the conflict using video content alongside a comprehensive workbook.</p><p>You can work through this course either individually or with your partner. When one partner alone makes positive changes, the relationship feels lighter and more connected. 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All you need is to print an additional workbook if doing it together!</p><h3><strong>This is achieved by working through modules, which involve:</strong></h3> <ol><li>Exploring how our capacity to relate to others (our relational wiring) is shaped by our early childhood experiences.</li><li>Understanding our own relational wiring and why we become reactive to certain triggers with our partner.</li><li>Understanding how our relational wiring can lead to conflict and hurtful communication between partners.</li><li>Understanding how our ego impacts conflict in couple relationships, and how this is linked to feeling safe or unsafe in our relationship.</li><li>Developing the necessary skills to calm down during conflict or preventing it.</li><li>Developing Couple Mindedness, an essential component for decreasing conflict and improving communication with our partner.</li><li>Developing the skills for respectful communication and improve listening, curiosity, respect, and empathy.</li></ol>','Fight Less, Love More - The Frae Special Offer','','inherit','closed','closed','','5311-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 08:45:17','2022-09-28 08:45:17','',5311,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5344',0,'revision','',0),(5345,3,'2022-09-28 08:45:17','2022-09-28 08:45:17','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Course - Fight Less, Love More            \n        </h1>\n            <h2>\n                Lissy is featured in...            \n        </h2>\n		[elementor-template id=\"4440\"][elementor-template id=\"4443\"]		\n            Learn to Skilfully Communicate with your Partner &amp; Decrease Conflict        \n		<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This course has been designed to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. 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It will help you gain new insights into yourself and how you relate to your partner, focusing on thoughts and behaviours which can present challenges. Learning to communicate with your partner caringly, respectfully, and skilfully is essential for a happy relationship.</p><h3><b>Would you like to…</b></h3>\n&nbsp;\n<ul>\n<li>Increase respect in your relationship&nbsp;<strong>without</strong>&nbsp;having to fight for it?</li>\n<li>Feel deeper levels of love and connectedness <strong>without</strong>&nbsp;having to be in the ‘honeymoon’ phase?</li>\n<li>Experience increased sexual connectedness&nbsp;<strong>without&nbsp;</strong>rejection?</li>\n<li>Increase happiness and have a peaceful home&nbsp;<strong>without&nbsp;</strong>being triggered by your partner?</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Committed relationships are difficult. For many of us, our communication difficulties can lead to upsetting conflict. 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It will help you gain new insights into yourself and how you relate to your partner, focusing on thoughts and behaviours which can present challenges. Learning to communicate with your partner caringly, respectfully, and skilfully is essential for a happy relationship.</p><h3><b>Would you like to…</b></h3>\n&nbsp;\n<ul>\n<li>Increase respect in your relationship&nbsp;<strong>without</strong>&nbsp;having to fight for it?</li>\n<li>Feel deeper levels of love and connectedness <strong>without</strong>&nbsp;having to be in the ‘honeymoon’ phase?</li>\n<li>Experience increased sexual connectedness&nbsp;<strong>without&nbsp;</strong>rejection?</li>\n<li>Increase happiness and have a peaceful home&nbsp;<strong>without&nbsp;</strong>being triggered by your partner?</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Committed relationships are difficult. For many of us, our communication difficulties can lead to upsetting conflict. 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It will help you gain new insights into yourself and how you relate to your partner, focusing on thoughts and behaviours which can present challenges. Learning to communicate with your partner caringly, respectfully, and skilfully is essential for a happy relationship.</p><h3><b>Would you like to…</b></h3>\n&nbsp;\n<ul>\n<li>Increase respect in your relationship&nbsp;<strong>without</strong>&nbsp;having to fight for it?</li>\n<li>Feel deeper levels of love and connectedness <strong>without</strong>&nbsp;having to be in the ‘honeymoon’ phase?</li>\n<li>Experience increased sexual connectedness&nbsp;<strong>without&nbsp;</strong>rejection?</li>\n<li>Increase happiness and have a peaceful home&nbsp;<strong>without&nbsp;</strong>being triggered by your partner?</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Committed relationships are difficult. For many of us, our communication difficulties can lead to upsetting conflict. 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It will help you gain new insights into yourself and how you relate to your partner, focusing on thoughts and behaviours which can present challenges. Learning to communicate with your partner caringly, respectfully, and skilfully is essential for a happy relationship.</p><h3><b>Would you like to…</b></h3>\n&nbsp;\n<ul>\n<li>Increase respect in your relationship&nbsp;<strong>without</strong>&nbsp;having to fight for it?</li>\n<li>Feel deeper levels of love and connectedness <strong>without</strong>&nbsp;having to be in the ‘honeymoon’ phase?</li>\n<li>Experience increased sexual connectedness&nbsp;<strong>without&nbsp;</strong>rejection?</li>\n<li>Increase happiness and have a peaceful home&nbsp;<strong>without&nbsp;</strong>being triggered by your partner?</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Committed relationships are difficult. For many of us, our communication difficulties can lead to upsetting conflict. 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When partners do this course together, they go on a journey of discovery that is life-changing and increases intimacy. All you need is to print an additional workbook if doing it together!</p>		\n		<h3><strong style=\"color: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.02em;\">This is achieved by working through modules, which involve:</strong></h3> <ol><li>Exploring how our capacity to relate to others (our relational wiring) is shaped by our early childhood experiences.</li><li>Understanding our own relational wiring and why we become reactive to certain triggers with our partner.</li><li>Understanding how our relational wiring can lead to conflict and hurtful communication between partners.</li><li>Understanding how our ego impacts conflict in couple relationships, and how this is linked to feeling safe or unsafe in our relationship.</li><li>Developing the necessary skills to calm down during conflict or preventing it.</li><li>Developing Couple Mindedness, an essential component for decreasing conflict and improving communication with our partner.</li><li>Developing the skills for respectful communication and improve listening, curiosity, respect, and empathy.</li></ol>','Fight Less, Love More - The Frae Special Offer','','inherit','closed','closed','','5311-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 08:46:59','2022-09-28 08:46:59','',5311,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5351',0,'revision','',0),(5352,3,'2022-09-28 08:46:59','2022-09-28 08:46:59','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Course - Fight Less, Love More            \n        </h1>\n            <h2>\n                Lissy is featured in...            \n        </h2>\n		[elementor-template id=\"4440\"][elementor-template id=\"4443\"]		\n            Learn to Skilfully Communicate with your Partner &amp; Decrease Conflict        \n		<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This course has been designed to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. 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Over time, this hurts the relationship as partners often lose trust in each other and decrease their desire for emotional closeness and sexual connection. Prolonged, unresolved conflict and repeated cycles of blame can even result in the relationship ending.</p>\n<p>This course has been created to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you to understand your own relationship and develop the skills needed to improve communication so that you and your partner become happier and more connected.</p>\n<p>You will understand why couples&nbsp;<em>really</em>&nbsp;fight by leading expert&nbsp;<em>Lissy Abrahams.&nbsp;</em>You will be guided through strategies for ending the conflict using video content alongside a comprehensive workbook.</p>\n<p>You can work through this course either individually or with your partner. When one partner alone makes positive changes, the relationship feels lighter and more connected. When partners do this course together, they go on a journey of discovery that is life-changing and increases intimacy. All you need is to print an additional workbook if doing it together!</p>		\n		<h3><strong style=\"color: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.02em;\">This is achieved by working through modules, which involve:</strong></h3> <ol><li>Exploring how our capacity to relate to others (our relational wiring) is shaped by our early childhood experiences.</li><li>Understanding our own relational wiring and why we become reactive to certain triggers with our partner.</li><li>Understanding how our relational wiring can lead to conflict and hurtful communication between partners.</li><li>Understanding how our ego impacts conflict in couple relationships, and how this is linked to feeling safe or unsafe in our relationship.</li><li>Developing the necessary skills to calm down during conflict or preventing it.</li><li>Developing Couple Mindedness, an essential component for decreasing conflict and improving communication with our partner.</li><li>Developing the skills for respectful communication and improve listening, curiosity, respect, and empathy.</li></ol>','Fight Less, Love More - The Frae Special Offer','','inherit','closed','closed','','5311-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 08:46:59','2022-09-28 08:46:59','',5311,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5352',0,'revision','',0),(5353,3,'2022-09-28 08:48:06','2022-09-28 08:48:06','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Course - Fight Less, Love More            \n        </h1>\n            <h2>\n                Lissy is featured in...            \n        </h2>\n		[elementor-template id=\"4440\"][elementor-template id=\"4443\"]		\n            Learn to Skilfully Communicate with your Partner &amp; Decrease Conflict        \n		<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This course has been designed to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. 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When partners do this course together, they go on a journey of discovery that is life-changing and increases intimacy. All you need is to print an additional workbook if doing it together!</p>		\n		<h3><strong style=\"color: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.02em;\">This is achieved by working through modules, which involve:</strong></h3> <ol><li>Exploring how our capacity to relate to others (our relational wiring) is shaped by our early childhood experiences.</li><li>Understanding our own relational wiring and why we become reactive to certain triggers with our partner.</li><li>Understanding how our relational wiring can lead to conflict and hurtful communication between partners.</li><li>Understanding how our ego impacts conflict in couple relationships, and how this is linked to feeling safe or unsafe in our relationship.</li><li>Developing the necessary skills to calm down during conflict or preventing it.</li><li>Developing Couple Mindedness, an essential component for decreasing conflict and improving communication with our partner.</li><li>Developing the skills for respectful communication and improve listening, curiosity, respect, and empathy.</li></ol>','Fight Less, Love More - The Frae Special Offer','','inherit','closed','closed','','5311-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 08:48:06','2022-09-28 08:48:06','',5311,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5353',0,'revision','',0),(5354,3,'2022-09-28 08:48:06','2022-09-28 08:48:06','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Course - Fight Less, Love More            \n        </h1>\n            <h2>\n                Lissy is featured in...            \n        </h2>\n		[elementor-template id=\"4440\"][elementor-template id=\"4443\"]		\n            Learn to Skilfully Communicate with your Partner &amp; Decrease Conflict        \n		<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This course has been designed to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you gain new insights into yourself and how you relate to your partner, focusing on thoughts and behaviours which can present challenges. Learning to communicate with your partner caringly, respectfully, and skilfully is essential for a happy relationship.</p><h3><b>Would you like to…</b></h3>\n&nbsp;\n<ul>\n<li>Increase respect in your relationship&nbsp;<strong>without</strong>&nbsp;having to fight for it?</li>\n<li>Feel deeper levels of love and connectedness <strong>without</strong>&nbsp;having to be in the ‘honeymoon’ phase?</li>\n<li>Experience increased sexual connectedness&nbsp;<strong>without&nbsp;</strong>rejection?</li>\n<li>Increase happiness and have a peaceful home&nbsp;<strong>without&nbsp;</strong>being triggered by your partner?</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Committed relationships are difficult. For many of us, our communication difficulties can lead to upsetting conflict. 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When partners do this course together, they go on a journey of discovery that is life-changing and increases intimacy. All you need is to print an additional workbook if doing it together!</p>		\n		<h3><strong style=\"color: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.02em;\">This is achieved by working through modules, which involve:</strong></h3> <ol><li>Exploring how our capacity to relate to others (our relational wiring) is shaped by our early childhood experiences.</li><li>Understanding our own relational wiring and why we become reactive to certain triggers with our partner.</li><li>Understanding how our relational wiring can lead to conflict and hurtful communication between partners.</li><li>Understanding how our ego impacts conflict in couple relationships, and how this is linked to feeling safe or unsafe in our relationship.</li><li>Developing the necessary skills to calm down during conflict or preventing it.</li><li>Developing Couple Mindedness, an essential component for decreasing conflict and improving communication with our partner.</li><li>Developing the skills for respectful communication and improve listening, curiosity, respect, and empathy.</li></ol>','Fight Less, Love More - The Frae Special Offer','','inherit','closed','closed','','5311-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 08:48:06','2022-09-28 08:48:06','',5311,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5354',0,'revision','',0),(5355,3,'2022-09-28 08:48:07','2022-09-28 08:48:07','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Course - Fight Less, Love More            \n        </h1>\n            <h2>\n                Lissy is featured in...            \n        </h2>\n		[elementor-template id=\"4440\"][elementor-template id=\"4443\"]		\n            Learn to Skilfully Communicate with your Partner &amp; Decrease Conflict        \n		<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This course has been designed to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you gain new insights into yourself and how you relate to your partner, focusing on thoughts and behaviours which can present challenges. Learning to communicate with your partner caringly, respectfully, and skilfully is essential for a happy relationship.</p><h3><b>Would you like to…</b></h3>\n&nbsp;\n<ul>\n<li>Increase respect in your relationship&nbsp;<strong>without</strong>&nbsp;having to fight for it?</li>\n<li>Feel deeper levels of love and connectedness <strong>without</strong>&nbsp;having to be in the ‘honeymoon’ phase?</li>\n<li>Experience increased sexual connectedness&nbsp;<strong>without&nbsp;</strong>rejection?</li>\n<li>Increase happiness and have a peaceful home&nbsp;<strong>without&nbsp;</strong>being triggered by your partner?</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Committed relationships are difficult. For many of us, our communication difficulties can lead to upsetting conflict. 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When partners do this course together, they go on a journey of discovery that is life-changing and increases intimacy. All you need is to print an additional workbook if doing it together!</p>		\n		<h3><strong style=\"color: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.02em;\">This is achieved by working through modules, which involve:</strong></h3> <ol><li>Exploring how our capacity to relate to others (our relational wiring) is shaped by our early childhood experiences.</li><li>Understanding our own relational wiring and why we become reactive to certain triggers with our partner.</li><li>Understanding how our relational wiring can lead to conflict and hurtful communication between partners.</li><li>Understanding how our ego impacts conflict in couple relationships, and how this is linked to feeling safe or unsafe in our relationship.</li><li>Developing the necessary skills to calm down during conflict or preventing it.</li><li>Developing Couple Mindedness, an essential component for decreasing conflict and improving communication with our partner.</li><li>Developing the skills for respectful communication and improve listening, curiosity, respect, and empathy.</li></ol>','Fight Less, Love More - The Frae Special Offer','','inherit','closed','closed','','5311-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 08:48:07','2022-09-28 08:48:07','',5311,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5355',0,'revision','',0),(5356,3,'2022-09-28 08:48:45','2022-09-28 08:48:45','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Course - Fight Less, Love More            \n        </h1>\n            <h2>\n                Lissy is featured in...            \n        </h2>\n		[elementor-template id=\"4440\"][elementor-template id=\"4443\"]		\n            Learn to Skilfully Communicate with your Partner &amp; Decrease Conflict        \n		<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This course has been designed to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. 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When partners do this course together, they go on a journey of discovery that is life-changing and increases intimacy. All you need is to print an additional workbook if doing it together!</p>		\n		<h3><strong style=\"color: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.02em;\">This is achieved by working through modules, which involve:</strong></h3> <ol><li>Exploring how our capacity to relate to others (our relational wiring) is shaped by our early childhood experiences.</li><li>Understanding our own relational wiring and why we become reactive to certain triggers with our partner.</li><li>Understanding how our relational wiring can lead to conflict and hurtful communication between partners.</li><li>Understanding how our ego impacts conflict in couple relationships, and how this is linked to feeling safe or unsafe in our relationship.</li><li>Developing the necessary skills to calm down during conflict or preventing it.</li><li>Developing Couple Mindedness, an essential component for decreasing conflict and improving communication with our partner.</li><li>Developing the skills for respectful communication and improve listening, curiosity, respect, and empathy.</li></ol>','Fight Less, Love More - The Frae Special Offer','','inherit','closed','closed','','5311-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 08:48:45','2022-09-28 08:48:45','',5311,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5356',0,'revision','',0),(5357,3,'2022-09-28 08:48:45','2022-09-28 08:48:45','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Course - Fight Less, Love More            \n        </h1>\n            <h2>\n                Lissy is featured in...            \n        </h2>\n		[elementor-template id=\"4440\"][elementor-template id=\"4443\"]		\n            Learn to Skilfully Communicate with your Partner &amp; Decrease Conflict        \n		<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This course has been designed to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you gain new insights into yourself and how you relate to your partner, focusing on thoughts and behaviours which can present challenges. Learning to communicate with your partner caringly, respectfully, and skilfully is essential for a happy relationship.</p><h3><b>Would you like to…</b></h3>\n&nbsp;\n<ul>\n<li>Increase respect in your relationship&nbsp;<strong>without</strong>&nbsp;having to fight for it?</li>\n<li>Feel deeper levels of love and connectedness <strong>without</strong>&nbsp;having to be in the ‘honeymoon’ phase?</li>\n<li>Experience increased sexual connectedness&nbsp;<strong>without&nbsp;</strong>rejection?</li>\n<li>Increase happiness and have a peaceful home&nbsp;<strong>without&nbsp;</strong>being triggered by your partner?</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Committed relationships are difficult. For many of us, our communication difficulties can lead to upsetting conflict. Over time, this hurts the relationship as partners often lose trust in each other and decrease their desire for emotional closeness and sexual connection. Prolonged, unresolved conflict and repeated cycles of blame can even result in the relationship ending.</p>\n<p>This course has been created to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you to understand your own relationship and develop the skills needed to improve communication so that you and your partner become happier and more connected.</p>\n<p>You will understand why couples&nbsp;<em>really</em>&nbsp;fight by leading expert&nbsp;<em>Lissy Abrahams.&nbsp;</em>You will be guided through strategies for ending the conflict using video content alongside a comprehensive workbook.</p>\n<p>You can work through this course either individually or with your partner. When one partner alone makes positive changes, the relationship feels lighter and more connected. When partners do this course together, they go on a journey of discovery that is life-changing and increases intimacy. All you need is to print an additional workbook if doing it together!</p>		\n		<h3><strong style=\"color: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.02em;\">This is achieved by working through modules, which involve:</strong></h3> <ol><li>Exploring how our capacity to relate to others (our relational wiring) is shaped by our early childhood experiences.</li><li>Understanding our own relational wiring and why we become reactive to certain triggers with our partner.</li><li>Understanding how our relational wiring can lead to conflict and hurtful communication between partners.</li><li>Understanding how our ego impacts conflict in couple relationships, and how this is linked to feeling safe or unsafe in our relationship.</li><li>Developing the necessary skills to calm down during conflict or preventing it.</li><li>Developing Couple Mindedness, an essential component for decreasing conflict and improving communication with our partner.</li><li>Developing the skills for respectful communication and improve listening, curiosity, respect, and empathy.</li></ol>','Fight Less, Love More - The Frae Special Offer','','inherit','closed','closed','','5311-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 08:48:45','2022-09-28 08:48:45','',5311,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5357',0,'revision','',0),(5358,3,'2022-09-28 08:48:45','2022-09-28 08:48:45','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Course - Fight Less, Love More            \n        </h1>\n            <h2>\n                Lissy is featured in...            \n        </h2>\n		[elementor-template id=\"4440\"][elementor-template id=\"4443\"]		\n            Learn to Skilfully Communicate with your Partner &amp; Decrease Conflict        \n		<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This course has been designed to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you gain new insights into yourself and how you relate to your partner, focusing on thoughts and behaviours which can present challenges. Learning to communicate with your partner caringly, respectfully, and skilfully is essential for a happy relationship.</p><h3><b>Would you like to…</b></h3>\n&nbsp;\n<ul>\n<li>Increase respect in your relationship&nbsp;<strong>without</strong>&nbsp;having to fight for it?</li>\n<li>Feel deeper levels of love and connectedness <strong>without</strong>&nbsp;having to be in the ‘honeymoon’ phase?</li>\n<li>Experience increased sexual connectedness&nbsp;<strong>without&nbsp;</strong>rejection?</li>\n<li>Increase happiness and have a peaceful home&nbsp;<strong>without&nbsp;</strong>being triggered by your partner?</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Committed relationships are difficult. For many of us, our communication difficulties can lead to upsetting conflict. Over time, this hurts the relationship as partners often lose trust in each other and decrease their desire for emotional closeness and sexual connection. Prolonged, unresolved conflict and repeated cycles of blame can even result in the relationship ending.</p>\n<p>This course has been created to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you to understand your own relationship and develop the skills needed to improve communication so that you and your partner become happier and more connected.</p>\n<p>You will understand why couples&nbsp;<em>really</em>&nbsp;fight by leading expert&nbsp;<em>Lissy Abrahams.&nbsp;</em>You will be guided through strategies for ending the conflict using video content alongside a comprehensive workbook.</p>\n<p>You can work through this course either individually or with your partner. When one partner alone makes positive changes, the relationship feels lighter and more connected. When partners do this course together, they go on a journey of discovery that is life-changing and increases intimacy. All you need is to print an additional workbook if doing it together!</p>		\n		<h3><strong style=\"color: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.02em;\">This is achieved by working through modules, which involve:</strong></h3> <ol><li>Exploring how our capacity to relate to others (our relational wiring) is shaped by our early childhood experiences.</li><li>Understanding our own relational wiring and why we become reactive to certain triggers with our partner.</li><li>Understanding how our relational wiring can lead to conflict and hurtful communication between partners.</li><li>Understanding how our ego impacts conflict in couple relationships, and how this is linked to feeling safe or unsafe in our relationship.</li><li>Developing the necessary skills to calm down during conflict or preventing it.</li><li>Developing Couple Mindedness, an essential component for decreasing conflict and improving communication with our partner.</li><li>Developing the skills for respectful communication and improve listening, curiosity, respect, and empathy.</li></ol>','Fight Less, Love More - The Frae Special Offer','','inherit','closed','closed','','5311-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 08:48:45','2022-09-28 08:48:45','',5311,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5358',0,'revision','',0),(5359,3,'2022-09-28 08:49:09','2022-09-28 08:49:09','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Course - Fight Less, Love More            \n        </h1>\n            <h2>\n                Lissy is featured in...            \n        </h2>\n		[elementor-template id=\"4440\"][elementor-template id=\"4443\"]		\n            Learn to Skilfully Communicate with your Partner &amp; Decrease Conflict        \n		<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This course has been designed to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you gain new insights into yourself and how you relate to your partner, focusing on thoughts and behaviours which can present challenges. Learning to communicate with your partner caringly, respectfully, and skilfully is essential for a happy relationship.</p><h3><b>Would you like to…</b></h3>\n&nbsp;\n<ul>\n<li>Increase respect in your relationship&nbsp;<strong>without</strong>&nbsp;having to fight for it?</li>\n<li>Feel deeper levels of love and connectedness <strong>without</strong>&nbsp;having to be in the ‘honeymoon’ phase?</li>\n<li>Experience increased sexual connectedness&nbsp;<strong>without&nbsp;</strong>rejection?</li>\n<li>Increase happiness and have a peaceful home&nbsp;<strong>without&nbsp;</strong>being triggered by your partner?</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Committed relationships are difficult. For many of us, our communication difficulties can lead to upsetting conflict. Over time, this hurts the relationship as partners often lose trust in each other and decrease their desire for emotional closeness and sexual connection. Prolonged, unresolved conflict and repeated cycles of blame can even result in the relationship ending.</p>\n<p>This course has been created to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you to understand your own relationship and develop the skills needed to improve communication so that you and your partner become happier and more connected.</p>\n<p>You will understand why couples&nbsp;<em>really</em>&nbsp;fight by leading expert&nbsp;<em>Lissy Abrahams.&nbsp;</em>You will be guided through strategies for ending the conflict using video content alongside a comprehensive workbook.</p>\n<p>You can work through this course either individually or with your partner. When one partner alone makes positive changes, the relationship feels lighter and more connected. When partners do this course together, they go on a journey of discovery that is life-changing and increases intimacy. All you need is to print an additional workbook if doing it together!</p>		\n		<h3><strong style=\"color: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.02em;\">This is achieved by working through modules, which involve:</strong></h3> <ol><li>Exploring how our capacity to relate to others (our relational wiring) is shaped by our early childhood experiences.</li><li>Understanding our own relational wiring and why we become reactive to certain triggers with our partner.</li><li>Understanding how our relational wiring can lead to conflict and hurtful communication between partners.</li><li>Understanding how our ego impacts conflict in couple relationships, and how this is linked to feeling safe or unsafe in our relationship.</li><li>Developing the necessary skills to calm down during conflict or preventing it.</li><li>Developing Couple Mindedness, an essential component for decreasing conflict and improving communication with our partner.</li><li>Developing the skills for respectful communication and improve listening, curiosity, respect, and empathy.</li></ol>','Fight Less, Love More - The Frae Special Offer','','inherit','closed','closed','','5311-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 08:49:09','2022-09-28 08:49:09','',5311,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5359',0,'revision','',0),(5360,3,'2022-09-28 08:49:09','2022-09-28 08:49:09','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Course - Fight Less, Love More            \n        </h1>\n            <h2>\n                Lissy is featured in...            \n        </h2>\n		[elementor-template id=\"4440\"][elementor-template id=\"4443\"]		\n            Learn to Skilfully Communicate with your Partner &amp; Decrease Conflict        \n		<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This course has been designed to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you gain new insights into yourself and how you relate to your partner, focusing on thoughts and behaviours which can present challenges. Learning to communicate with your partner caringly, respectfully, and skilfully is essential for a happy relationship.</p><h3><b>Would you like to…</b></h3>\n&nbsp;\n<ul>\n<li>Increase respect in your relationship&nbsp;<strong>without</strong>&nbsp;having to fight for it?</li>\n<li>Feel deeper levels of love and connectedness <strong>without</strong>&nbsp;having to be in the ‘honeymoon’ phase?</li>\n<li>Experience increased sexual connectedness&nbsp;<strong>without&nbsp;</strong>rejection?</li>\n<li>Increase happiness and have a peaceful home&nbsp;<strong>without&nbsp;</strong>being triggered by your partner?</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Committed relationships are difficult. For many of us, our communication difficulties can lead to upsetting conflict. Over time, this hurts the relationship as partners often lose trust in each other and decrease their desire for emotional closeness and sexual connection. Prolonged, unresolved conflict and repeated cycles of blame can even result in the relationship ending.</p>\n<p>This course has been created to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you to understand your own relationship and develop the skills needed to improve communication so that you and your partner become happier and more connected.</p>\n<p>You will understand why couples&nbsp;<em>really</em>&nbsp;fight by leading expert&nbsp;<em>Lissy Abrahams.&nbsp;</em>You will be guided through strategies for ending the conflict using video content alongside a comprehensive workbook.</p>\n<p>You can work through this course either individually or with your partner. When one partner alone makes positive changes, the relationship feels lighter and more connected. When partners do this course together, they go on a journey of discovery that is life-changing and increases intimacy. All you need is to print an additional workbook if doing it together!</p>		\n		<h3><strong style=\"color: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.02em;\">This is achieved by working through modules, which involve:</strong></h3> <ol><li>Exploring how our capacity to relate to others (our relational wiring) is shaped by our early childhood experiences.</li><li>Understanding our own relational wiring and why we become reactive to certain triggers with our partner.</li><li>Understanding how our relational wiring can lead to conflict and hurtful communication between partners.</li><li>Understanding how our ego impacts conflict in couple relationships, and how this is linked to feeling safe or unsafe in our relationship.</li><li>Developing the necessary skills to calm down during conflict or preventing it.</li><li>Developing Couple Mindedness, an essential component for decreasing conflict and improving communication with our partner.</li><li>Developing the skills for respectful communication and improve listening, curiosity, respect, and empathy.</li></ol>','Fight Less, Love More - The Frae Special Offer','','inherit','closed','closed','','5311-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 08:49:09','2022-09-28 08:49:09','',5311,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5360',0,'revision','',0),(5361,3,'2022-09-28 08:49:10','2022-09-28 08:49:10','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Course - Fight Less, Love More            \n        </h1>\n            <h2>\n                Lissy is featured in...            \n        </h2>\n		[elementor-template id=\"4440\"][elementor-template id=\"4443\"]		\n            Learn to Skilfully Communicate with your Partner &amp; Decrease Conflict        \n		<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This course has been designed to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you gain new insights into yourself and how you relate to your partner, focusing on thoughts and behaviours which can present challenges. Learning to communicate with your partner caringly, respectfully, and skilfully is essential for a happy relationship.</p><h3><b>Would you like to…</b></h3>\n&nbsp;\n<ul>\n<li>Increase respect in your relationship&nbsp;<strong>without</strong>&nbsp;having to fight for it?</li>\n<li>Feel deeper levels of love and connectedness <strong>without</strong>&nbsp;having to be in the ‘honeymoon’ phase?</li>\n<li>Experience increased sexual connectedness&nbsp;<strong>without&nbsp;</strong>rejection?</li>\n<li>Increase happiness and have a peaceful home&nbsp;<strong>without&nbsp;</strong>being triggered by your partner?</li>\n</ul>\n<p>Committed relationships are difficult. For many of us, our communication difficulties can lead to upsetting conflict. Over time, this hurts the relationship as partners often lose trust in each other and decrease their desire for emotional closeness and sexual connection. Prolonged, unresolved conflict and repeated cycles of blame can even result in the relationship ending.</p>\n<p>This course has been created to ensure that your relationship can not only survive but thrive. It will help you to understand your own relationship and develop the skills needed to improve communication so that you and your partner become happier and more connected.</p>\n<p>You will understand why couples&nbsp;<em>really</em>&nbsp;fight by leading expert&nbsp;<em>Lissy Abrahams.&nbsp;</em>You will be guided through strategies for ending the conflict using video content alongside a comprehensive workbook.</p>\n<p>You can work through this course either individually or with your partner. When one partner alone makes positive changes, the relationship feels lighter and more connected. When partners do this course together, they go on a journey of discovery that is life-changing and increases intimacy. All you need is to print an additional workbook if doing it together!</p>		\n		<h3><strong style=\"color: inherit; letter-spacing: 0.02em;\">This is achieved by working through modules, which involve:</strong></h3> <ol><li>Exploring how our capacity to relate to others (our relational wiring) is shaped by our early childhood experiences.</li><li>Understanding our own relational wiring and why we become reactive to certain triggers with our partner.</li><li>Understanding how our relational wiring can lead to conflict and hurtful communication between partners.</li><li>Understanding how our ego impacts conflict in couple relationships, and how this is linked to feeling safe or unsafe in our relationship.</li><li>Developing the necessary skills to calm down during conflict or preventing it.</li><li>Developing Couple Mindedness, an essential component for decreasing conflict and improving communication with our partner.</li><li>Developing the skills for respectful communication and improve listening, curiosity, respect, and empathy.</li></ol>','Fight Less, Love More - The Frae Special Offer','','inherit','closed','closed','','5311-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 08:49:10','2022-09-28 08:49:10','',5311,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5361',0,'revision','',0),(5362,3,'2022-08-14 09:19:26','2022-08-14 09:19:26','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Mamam!a            \n        </h1>\n            Article - source: Mamamia        \n            <h2>\n                What to know about your \'relational template\' and how it affects the way you treat your partner.            \n        </h2>\n            14 August 2022        \n		<p>How we respond and react to our partner in our committed adult relationships is predominantly related to our childhood experiences with our parents or primary caregivers. </p><p>These early influences on our lives create an imprint of relationships, which we may or may not be aware of. </p><p>This imprint is like a relational template, which shapes our ideas and expectations of relationships and of how we and our partner should communicate and behave in our relationship.</p><p>Our mind and body are wired to relate to our partner according to this relational template.</p><h3><strong>Relational templates in couple relationships</strong></h3><p> </p><p>In any relationship, we’ll share some beliefs with our partner about how relationships should work, but we never have the same relational templates. That’s because we have lived in different homes, had different families and had completely different experiences.</p><p>It’s important for us to remember this, as we often create a fantasy that we should have similar views, expectations and behaviours in relationships. Even though it would be convenient if this were the case, this simply can’t occur, as we’re two very different beings and our life experiences have left us with different relational imprints.</p><p>Below are just a few examples of life experiences that would differ from our partner’s experiences, creating differing parental responses and contributing to our different relational templates:</p>		\n			<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://www.lissyabrahams.com/wp-content/plugins/elementor/assets/css/widget-icon-list.min.css\">		<ul>\n							<li>\n										Parents’ expectations or rules\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Parents’ capacity to emotionally see us as a child\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Sense of parental protectiveness and safety\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Parents’ own relationship: conflict, capacity for repair, their ability to apologise, gestures of love\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Parents’ separation or divorce\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Parental experiences with extended families\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Family trauma such as early parental death or illness, poverty, a sudden loss of money, or being a migrant\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Own separation or divorce\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Relationships with siblings and birth order\n									</li>\n						</ul>\n		<p>We can see how these experiences shape our mind, our relational wiring, how we absorb and process information and experiences, and how we feel about them. </p><p>These life experiences shape our ability to tolerate different viewpoints, and influence whether we listen well to our partner or find it difficult. They also influence what we react to and how, and what sets us off into fight-or-flight mode.</p><p>We all grow up in environments that are uniquely ours. Therefore, in our relationship we’ll always encounter differences that we’ll need to work through together. We all have different triggers and behave differently in fight-or-flight mode. </p><p>We all have different thoughts about conflict: who was right or wrong? Who was to blame? Who started it? And we all have a different understanding of why we fight with our partner. All these beliefs and behaviours define our default expectations, rules for safety and non-negotiables in our relationship.</p><p>Our relational template will determine how we react to our partner when our expectations of each other and our relationship differ. Sometimes we can talk through differences; other times we can’t. Sometimes we can feel frightened by our partner’s actions, words or behaviour. </p><p>Our relational templates are different, and the gap between them can be perceived as a threat.</p><p>Understanding our relational templates is critical if we want or need to reduce conflict and form a healthier relationship with our partner.</p><h3><strong>Why it\'s important to understand your relational template</strong></h3><p>We all need to examine how our childhood experiences persist inside of us today, and how this impacts our relationship. Only when we make these connections, can we change the dynamic of our couple conflict. We, as individuals, can make our relationship better.</p><p>In the first one or two sessions with a new client or couple, I always seek some access to their relational template and wiring. I simply ask them about their relationship with their parents and what their parents’ relationship was like growing up. </p><p>By understanding how we’re relationally wired, we can learn how to avoid getting into the emotional boxing ring, and if we do happen to find ourselves there, we can exit faster with fewer body blows. When we understand this, we can then understand why we really fight with our partner. This is a game changer.</p><p>To do this, we’ll look at our experiences with parents or caregivers where we felt secure and protected, as well as experiences where we felt less safe or less protected. This will offer clues about our relational wiring and help us understand why and how we fight with our partner. This exercise isn’t about blaming or shaming anyone.</p><p>It’s not about accusing our parents or judging them for how we were raised. This is about objectively considering what happened in the past to understand how our relational wiring impacts our adult relationship today.</p><p>I’d love for everyone to see how normal it is to have couple conflict. The truth is that couple relationships are often messy and complicated. </p><p>During the dizzy joy of the honeymoon period, we often have no idea that we can end up locked in confusing and exhausting cycles of conflict. We have no idea that at the heart of these episodes is fear and a lack of safety. </p><p>But this is not new – this is from our childhood and was encoded way back then.</p><h3><strong>Safety and trust develop in childhood</strong></h3><p>We’re not born feeling safe. In fact, it’s the opposite. Just think of a newborn baby with no ability to dress itself, feed itself or even soothe itself. From the moment they’re born, they’re completely dependent on their parents for their survival. This enormous dependency means danger and threat is never far away. When we hear a hungry baby crying, it pulls at our heartstrings because their distress is so evident. They can’t go to the fridge and grab a snack.</p><p>They’re literally screaming for their lives, and their nervous system is registering danger and threat.</p><p>As a baby, our sense of safety develops when we’re with parents who protect, feed, soothe and nurture us. We learn to feel safe knowing our parents are with us, attending to things we simply can’t do yet.</p><p>As children, it is written deeply into our mammalian core that it’s our parents’ job to keep us safe. That’s why children instinctively seek their parents when they’re hurt or afraid. </p><p>When our parents protect us, meet our basic needs, comfort us and are available to us, we learn we can really trust them. These experiences calm our nervous system, and we feel safe.</p><p>When parents take care of our physical and emotional safety, we can have some scrapes, be soothed by them, recover and re-establish our feelings of being protected. </p><p>We will still experience fear and danger, but we know our parent will comfort us. When these experiences are repeated during our childhood, we learn to tolerate upsetting and distressing experiences. This is how we become more resilient, and all of these moments of comfort and soothing are encoded in our relational wiring.</p><p>It’s important to note that no parent can offer perfect protection and safety; we have all had some experiences where our parents were not physically or emotionally able to help us feel secure.</p><p>Parents are also human, and they can be out of line at times, or maybe even a little frightening. There will always be ruptures or difficulties in parent–child relationships, but what’s critical is how they’re repaired.</p><p>When our parent repeatedly sees that we’re slightly frightened or are feeling an absence of protection from them and they’re apologetic, this becomes an established pattern that we learn to rely on.</p><p>As they repeatedly re-establish trust with us, we’re more likely to develop distress tolerance, which we carry through to our adult relationships. This is how our relational wiring around safety and trust develops – through our parent–child relationships.</p><h3><strong>The theory of relational wiring</strong></h3><p>The importance of security and safety in childhood has been extensively studied across the world through a body of research and clinical work called attachment theory, and it forms the basis of our relational wiring. </p><p>This work, started by John Bowlby, examines the types of emotional bonds children form with their parents or primary caregivers. He described attachment as a special emotional relationship that involves an exchange of comfort, care and pleasure.</p><p>It’s easy to understand how a baby would see their parent or primary caregiver as an attachment figure. As babies, we normally don’t have many primary attachment figures – sometimes just one – with whom we share that exchange. </p><p>We’ve already talked about how vulnerable and dependent a baby truly is, so having an attachment figure who is focused on them increases their chance of survival.</p><p>Researchers were interested in the distress behaviours babies revealed when they were left alone by their parent (attachment figure) and were suddenly feeling vulnerable and unsafe. Any parent whose baby cries when they go to the toilet will know exactly how this feels. </p><p>What’s important to take away from this is that loss or the threat of loss is central to psychological distress.</p><h3><strong>Research: The Adult Attachment Interview</strong></h3><p>The Adult Attachment Interview was a protocol developed in 1985 using a semi-structured interview with participants to determine their mental representations of their childhood attachment experiences. The aim is to get a sense of their relational template.</p><p>It’s a complex interview, and requires training to conduct. In a nutshell, it focuses on two key areas:</p><p>1. Eliciting the subject’s memories and their relationship with their parent(s) in childhood, including how they coped.</p><p>2. The extent to which they evaluated or integrated those experiences as an adult today, and their current relationships with their parent(s).</p><p>The subjects were also assessed for the coherence of their narrative. This was done by assessing how truthful and consistent they were, whether there was too little or too much information provided, how relevant the material was, and finally whether they were clear in the interview.</p><p>This research was groundbreaking. It found that our adult attachment styles map onto our infant attachment styles. They weren’t always an exact fit, but there was typically a style that fitted more than others.</p><p>The names of the categories in childhood and adulthood are essentially the same, or very similar. Let me show you how.</p><p>If a child was securely attached, then as an adult they were likely to be securely attached. They became resilient adults.</p><p>If a child was insecurely attached then they were as an adult, too. There were three similar styles that corresponded to these.</p><p>1. An ambivalently attached child became a preoccupied adult – think of the clingy/angry style.</p><p>2. An avoidantly attached child created a fortress and continued to do so as an adult with a dismissing attachment style.</p><p>Essentially, what this reveals is that our minds were relationally wired by twelve to eighteen months of age, and this becomes our relational template in adulthood. This template carries our expectations and beliefs about relationships, how we believe we should or shouldn’t treat or be treated by our partner, and our capacity to tolerate distress, or not.</p><p>We have no idea that our attachment style plays out in our adult behaviour and relationships. We just think ‘this is me,’ and that dictates what we believe and how we behave. We don’t question why we behave in a sulky or childlike manner, nor do we see a problem with our blaming, critical or aloof behaviour. It’s just who we are, right? Well, no – it’s how we’ve always behaved according to our relational wiring, but it’s not who we are.</p><p>We all know someone who makes the same ‘mistakes’ in relationships, leaving friends scratching their heads, wondering when they’ll learn their lesson. We can even be that person! The reason we repeat relationship ‘mistakes’ is due to our relational template. </p><p>Let’s look at the adult attachment styles in more detail.</p>		\n			<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}</style><h3>1. Secure adult attachment: resilient style</h3>		\n		<p>Adults with a secure attachment style -</p>		\n					<ul>\n							<li>\n										Are independent and self-reliant\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Are confident\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Have trusting, close and enduring relationships in life\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Can speak about their own emotions\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Are aware of other people’s needs and emotions\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Can rely on others when needed\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Developed distress tolerance\n									</li>\n						</ul>\n			<h3>2. Insecure adult attachment. Preoccupied adult attachment: clingy/angry style</h3>		\n		<p>Adults with a clingy/angry attachment style -</p>		\n					<ul>\n							<li>\n										Are needy, requiring ongoing reassurance from their partner, fearing rejection or abandonment worry/are anxious that their partner doesn’t love them.\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Have trouble trusting others\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Lack impulse control, can be angry, unpredictable or moody\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Connect through conflict\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Blame others, not acknowledging their own responsibility\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Are overly sensitive to their partner’s emotional and physical whereabouts\n									</li>\n						</ul>\n		<p>These adults become preoccupied with the relationship; they can’t find a comfortable way of being in it. Their parent was sometimes there for them and sometimes not, and this left a mark on them that affects how they behave as adults.</p>		\n			<h3>3. Dismissing adult attachment: fortress style</h3>		\n		<p>Partners with this attachment style are often dragged into couples therapy by their partner. They don\'t like talking about their feelings, as they\'re just not used to doing so. Characteristics of the adult fortress attachment style include -</p>		\n					<ul>\n							<li>\n										Communicates in an intellectual and controlled manner\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Is distant emotionally and rejects others’ emotions\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Invests little emotion in social or romantic relationships\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Shows a narrow or limited emotional range\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Is unable or unwilling to share thoughts and feelings with others\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Is unable to depend on others or unable to allow their partner to depend on them\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Prefers independence and autonomy over depending on others\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Shows a calm exterior, typically hiding their anxiety\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Uses distraction from feelings, such as work or exercise\n									</li>\n						</ul>\n			<h3>4. Unresolved/disorganised adult attachment: no strategy style</h3>		\n		<p>Typical behaviours of the unresolved/disorganised adult attachment style include -</p>		\n					<ul>\n							<li>\n										Has traumatic memories, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or dissociation\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Struggles with mood and anxiety – depression, overwhelm, a sense of disconnection, a fear of abandonment, helplessness, rage, feeling trapped or irritable\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Relies on substances (drugs and/or alcohol)\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Is unable to understand their own feelings or recognise the mental states of others (including their partner)\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Lacks trust, empathy and remorse for others\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Shows chaotic or unpredictable emotional states\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Is unable to tolerate intimacy in a relationship\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										May be narcissistic or appear to be narcissistic\n									</li>\n						</ul>\n			<h3>The good news</h3>		\n		<p>The good news for all of us is that these attachment styles aren’t fixed for life. The concept of earned secure attachment applies to people who have made sense of and created meaning from past experiences with their parents that led to insecure attachment.</p><p>With earned secure attachment, we accept these past experiences and escape the hold they have over our lives. This enables us to relate to our partner in a healthier way and remove the soul-destroying episodes of conflict from our relationship. It is an important component for decreasing couple conflict.</p><p><a href=\"https://www.booktopia.com.au/relationship-reset-lissy-abrahams/book/9781760989781.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Relationship Reset</em></a> is published by <a href=\"https://www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781760989781/relationship-reset/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pan Macmillan Australia</a> and is available now from Booktopia, Book Depository, Amazon and all the other online bookstores. </p><p><em>For more from Lissy Abrahams, you can follow her on </em><a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lissy.abrahams/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Instagram</em></a><em>.</em></p><p><em>Feature image: Getty</em></p>','What to know about your \'relational template\' and how it affects the way you treat your partner.',' Relationships can be TOUGH. And while things like cheating and trust issues are some very obvious red...','publish','closed','closed','','your-relational-template-and-how-it-affects-how-you-treat-your-partner','','','2022-10-17 02:16:00','2022-10-17 02:16:00','',0,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?post_type=case-study&#038;p=5362',0,'case-study','',0),(5363,3,'2022-09-28 09:23:35','2022-09-28 09:23:35','','Relational Templates & Impact on Partner','','inherit','open','closed','','relational-templates-impact-on-partner','','','2022-09-28 09:23:35','2022-09-28 09:23:35','',5362,'http://www.lissyabrahams.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Relational-Templates-Impact-on-Partner.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(5364,3,'2022-09-28 09:23:43','2022-09-28 09:23:43','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.2 - 21-08-2022 */<br />.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>\r\n<h1>Mamam!a</h1>\r\nArticle - source: Mamamia\r\n<h2>\"It’s just too much pressure\": 4 relationship \'expectations\' you need to ditch immediately</h2>\r\n17 July 2022\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to thinking about what kind of partner you want in your life, it\'s common to have a few non-negotiables on the list.\r\n\r\nWhether it\'s thinking there should always be a romantic \'spark\', avoiding conflict or expecting a certain amount of sex - everyone has a different set of deal breakers when they\'re dating.\r\n\r\nWatch: Here are some of the biggest relationship red flags you need to look out for.\r\n\r\nBut while everyone\'s expectations of a healthy relationship might be a little different, and it\'s normal for yours to be different from your partner\'s, how do we know if we’re asking too much from the person we\'re dating?\r\n\r\nIn fact, how do we develop all of these expectations in the first place?\r\n\r\nWell, apparently it\'s ingrained in us throughout our childhood.\r\n\r\nCouples counsellor Lissy Abrahams said that when we\'re children, we form our own unique \"relational template\", and later this can alter across adulthood due to other couple relationships.\r\n\r\n\"These were shaped by our parents, extended family, our culture, religion, film and television, teachers, friends and not friends, governments, celebrities, and more. We didn’t form expectations from nowhere,\" she said.\r\n\r\n\"They’ve been shaped inside us, and we often take them to be a fact – that is, how partners should and shouldn’t behave and feel in a couple relationship. So many of the expectations are formed around safety. Divorce has meant that we now fear losing our partner more than at any other time in history.\"\r\n\r\nAnd while some of these expectations might be helpful to the health of your relationship, forever focusing on the \'dos\' and \'don\'ts\' and where your relationship \'should\' be going and where it \'shouldn\'t\', might be a hindrance.\r\n\r\nAnd when you\'re happy in love, it can be pretty hard to miss these signs.\r\n\r\nSo, that\'s why we\'ve brought in our expert.\r\n\r\nHere, Abrahams tells us some of the biggest unrealistic relationship expectations we need to ditch, immediately.\r\n\r\n<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.2 - 21-08-2022 */<br />.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}</style>\r\n<h3>1. That your partner needs to be your everything</h3>\r\nAccording to our expert, this one is a fairly new belief. And it\'s actually more damaging than you might think.\r\n\r\n\"It’s only in the more recent decades that we have this notion,\" said Abrahams.\r\n\r\n\"We expect a soulmate, a lover, a confidante, a therapist, [someone with whom to] raise children and be a great parent to our children,\" said Abrahams.\r\n\r\n\"That they are amazingly attentive to us, work hard, manage a household, buy us lovely presents on special occasions, navigate the gap in our love languages, make us happy, financially have our back, help us buy a home, are great with our family and friends and so much more.\"\r\n\r\nAnyone else exhausted just reading that?!\r\n\r\nBut apparently, according to Abrahams, these are the sort of things we have ended up expecting from our partner over the decades, and we can often feel a sense of betrayal or distress when they fall short.\r\n\r\nThese days, our expectations of what makes a relationship \'healthy\' and how things should be is quite different to what they were years ago. And they can actually sabotage our connection with someone before they make them better.\r\n\r\n\"Partnerships of the past were often defined by a marriage, yet the expectations were nothing like they are today. They were both a property and a reproduction arrangement. Love was not part of the pact,\" explains Abrahams.\r\n\r\n\"Friendship wasn\'t even necessary. If they experienced love or friendship, it was a bonus, yet never a prerequisite. Partners had their respective gender roles and love was often sought out elsewhere and didn’t typically destabilise the unit.\"\r\n\r\nObviously times have changed, but with it we\'ve developed high and often unreasonable expectations in order to form what we think is a well-rounded partnership.\r\n\r\n\"Expectations grew over time as people moved to cities, away from family. We were no longer having a village meet our needs and now turned to our spouse to meet these. Then women became more educated, joined the workforce and became more independent.\"\r\n\r\n\"Women were also able to control their bodies and pregnancies through pharmaceuticals. Sex could be enjoyed more without the fear of falling pregnant. There was then a freedom to choose one\'s partner, and this is where fantasies of \'the one\' became unrealistic.\"\r\n\r\nAnd just to be clear, it\'s the same for men - their expectations have increased, too.\r\n\r\nAbrahams said, \"We took \'the one\' too literally, as if it meant \'only one\', and we over-relied on this one mere mortal to be our one and only – our \'everything\'.\"\r\n<h3>2. That your partner can be your everything</h3>\r\nQuestion for you: How much do you depend on your partner?\r\n\r\n\"For many partners, the fairytale beginning often turns into a nightmare due to the weight of the expectations that are based on fantasy, not reality. It’s simply not possible for one person to be our everything.\"\r\n\r\n\"It\'s just too much pressure on one person. I have seen relationships go through horrendous times because the fantasy partner created at the beginning of a relationship isn’t sustainable.\"\r\n\r\nThink back to the beginning of your relationship, and how different things were. There was that \'specialness fantasy\', where everything felt really new and exciting.\r\n\r\nThe butterflies-in-the-stomach, the crazy sex, the flirty comments, the interesting discussions that would last for ages...\r\n\r\n\"At the beginning of a relationship, both partners often create a fantasy partner to show we are better than any other potential mates out there. It’s all a bit of a performance. It’s a lovely performance, but it’s a performance, nonetheless. We find our mate for life, move in together and at this point the partners reveal their more ordinary aspects.\"\r\n\r\n\"It can feel brutal when our beloved takes their eyes off us more as it made us feel so secure and special. It can feel disastrous when the frequent sex diminishes, and we are left wanting.\"\r\n\r\n\"Many partners are devastated that their partner doesn’t parent the children the way they expect – saying, \'I thought he would be such a great dad.\' I often ask – why? As none of us know how to really be a parent until we have a child.\"\r\n\r\n\"Some partners cannot comprehend how their partner didn’t become more serious about their career and has a lower earning capacity than they expected. Some can’t deal with their partner not being \'the rock\' they need in difficult times.\"\r\n<h3>3. That we own our partner</h3>\r\nYeah, this one is a bit yucky. But it\'s actually super common and you probably don\'t even realise you\'re doing it.\r\n\r\n\"The word \'my\' implies ownership. We use the word \'my\' to refer to my husband, wife, or partner. We may allow ourselves to treat them in ways we deem acceptable because they are \'ours\',\" said Abrahams.\r\n\r\n\"We overlay our relationship rules and expectations and expect them to comply so that we feel safe in the relationship. We can also control and manipulate them to do this.\"\r\n\r\nAccording to Abrahams, being committed should not equate to ownership. Remember, they\'re their own person.\r\n\r\n\"We are both separate and unique beings whose worlds collided some time ago, and we decided to remain together. The more we recognise each other’s separateness, the healthier our relationship will be.\"\r\n<h3>4. That we can change our partner</h3>\r\nMaybe it\'s the fact your partner still can\'t get along with your friends and family. Perhaps it\'s their forgetfulness of important details and dates. Or the fact they\'re not as career driven as you once thought.\r\n\r\nBut if you\'re forever trying to change your partner, their personalities traits and the qualities that make them who they are - you\'re going to have a bad time. Because needing to control your partner\'s actions and thoughts is... not healthy.\r\n\r\nOften, this can be linked to our ego, which can cause us to project inadequacy onto our partner, and see their faults and limitations.\r\n\r\n\"If you think you can change your partner – save your breath and change yourself. Ask yourself – why do they need to change? How can I get some of my needs met in a different way? Are they really needs or are they expectations based on how I was shaped by external forces across life?\"\r\n\r\n\"We should anticipate that both of us will change over time and that we’ll be confronted with disappointment and even feelings of betrayal. This is because we have over-invested in our partner being our everything.\"\r\n\r\nThe answer? I know we\'re starting to sound like a broken record, but it\'s all about keeping your boundaries and sense of individuality.\r\n\r\nLearn to lean on others in the different communities you belong to for different reasons - whether it be your friends, family or your work colleagues. Because your partner isn\'t the answer to all of life\'s problems - you have other people in your life for a good reason!\r\n\r\n\"I recommend we take some pressure off relationships so they can be less fantasy-filled and more reality-based. Your friends can be your confidante, your work colleagues can be fun and enlivening, your sex life will alter across time - and it’s not always doom and gloom if it does.\"\r\n\r\nAbrahams said relationships prosper when both people maintain a level of independence within their own lives.\r\n\r\n\"Both of you will change over time as life changes all of us. Expectations need adjusting to life\'s changes and the reality of who our partner is, not who we want them to be.\"\r\n\r\nNow, read that last line again.\r\n\r\n<em>If you would like to learn more from Lissy Abrahams, check out her e-book on <strong><a href=\"https://www.lissyabrahams.com/service/what-makes-a-couple-relationship-a-happy-one/\">what makes a couple\'s relationship happy</a></strong>.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>Lissy Abrahams is part of Mamamia\'s health panel. She is a leading individual and couple psychotherapist who has dedicated her career to helping hundreds of clients navigate life’s obstacles and challenges. Lissy founded and manages the Sydney-based therapy clinic, Heath Group Practice, and works therapeutically with clients around the world. She has published academic work and launched a successful online course to help partners stop fighting and communicate respectfully. Her latest book is \'Relationship Reset\', due for release on 26th July.\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781760989781/relationship-reset/\">UPDATE: OUT NOW</a></strong></em>','What to know about your \'relational template\' and how it affects the way you treat your partner.',' Relationships can be TOUGH. And while things like cheating and trust issues are some very obvious red...','inherit','closed','closed','','5362-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 09:23:43','2022-09-28 09:23:43','',5362,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5364',0,'revision','',0),(5365,3,'2022-09-28 10:04:06','2022-09-28 10:04:06','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.2 - 21-08-2022 */<br />.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>\r\n<h1>Mamam!a</h1>\r\nArticle - source: Mamamia\r\n<h2>\"It’s just too much pressure\": 4 relationship \'expectations\' you need to ditch immediately</h2>\r\n17 July 2022\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to thinking about what kind of partner you want in your life, it\'s common to have a few non-negotiables on the list.\r\n\r\nWhether it\'s thinking there should always be a romantic \'spark\', avoiding conflict or expecting a certain amount of sex - everyone has a different set of deal breakers when they\'re dating.\r\n\r\nWatch: Here are some of the biggest relationship red flags you need to look out for.\r\n\r\nBut while everyone\'s expectations of a healthy relationship might be a little different, and it\'s normal for yours to be different from your partner\'s, how do we know if we’re asking too much from the person we\'re dating?\r\n\r\nIn fact, how do we develop all of these expectations in the first place?\r\n\r\nWell, apparently it\'s ingrained in us throughout our childhood.\r\n\r\nCouples counsellor Lissy Abrahams said that when we\'re children, we form our own unique \"relational template\", and later this can alter across adulthood due to other couple relationships.\r\n\r\n\"These were shaped by our parents, extended family, our culture, religion, film and television, teachers, friends and not friends, governments, celebrities, and more. We didn’t form expectations from nowhere,\" she said.\r\n\r\n\"They’ve been shaped inside us, and we often take them to be a fact – that is, how partners should and shouldn’t behave and feel in a couple relationship. So many of the expectations are formed around safety. Divorce has meant that we now fear losing our partner more than at any other time in history.\"\r\n\r\nAnd while some of these expectations might be helpful to the health of your relationship, forever focusing on the \'dos\' and \'don\'ts\' and where your relationship \'should\' be going and where it \'shouldn\'t\', might be a hindrance.\r\n\r\nAnd when you\'re happy in love, it can be pretty hard to miss these signs.\r\n\r\nSo, that\'s why we\'ve brought in our expert.\r\n\r\nHere, Abrahams tells us some of the biggest unrealistic relationship expectations we need to ditch, immediately.\r\n\r\n<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.2 - 21-08-2022 */<br />.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}</style>\r\n<h3>1. That your partner needs to be your everything</h3>\r\nAccording to our expert, this one is a fairly new belief. And it\'s actually more damaging than you might think.\r\n\r\n\"It’s only in the more recent decades that we have this notion,\" said Abrahams.\r\n\r\n\"We expect a soulmate, a lover, a confidante, a therapist, [someone with whom to] raise children and be a great parent to our children,\" said Abrahams.\r\n\r\n\"That they are amazingly attentive to us, work hard, manage a household, buy us lovely presents on special occasions, navigate the gap in our love languages, make us happy, financially have our back, help us buy a home, are great with our family and friends and so much more.\"\r\n\r\nAnyone else exhausted just reading that?!\r\n\r\nBut apparently, according to Abrahams, these are the sort of things we have ended up expecting from our partner over the decades, and we can often feel a sense of betrayal or distress when they fall short.\r\n\r\nThese days, our expectations of what makes a relationship \'healthy\' and how things should be is quite different to what they were years ago. And they can actually sabotage our connection with someone before they make them better.\r\n\r\n\"Partnerships of the past were often defined by a marriage, yet the expectations were nothing like they are today. They were both a property and a reproduction arrangement. Love was not part of the pact,\" explains Abrahams.\r\n\r\n\"Friendship wasn\'t even necessary. If they experienced love or friendship, it was a bonus, yet never a prerequisite. Partners had their respective gender roles and love was often sought out elsewhere and didn’t typically destabilise the unit.\"\r\n\r\nObviously times have changed, but with it we\'ve developed high and often unreasonable expectations in order to form what we think is a well-rounded partnership.\r\n\r\n\"Expectations grew over time as people moved to cities, away from family. We were no longer having a village meet our needs and now turned to our spouse to meet these. Then women became more educated, joined the workforce and became more independent.\"\r\n\r\n\"Women were also able to control their bodies and pregnancies through pharmaceuticals. Sex could be enjoyed more without the fear of falling pregnant. There was then a freedom to choose one\'s partner, and this is where fantasies of \'the one\' became unrealistic.\"\r\n\r\nAnd just to be clear, it\'s the same for men - their expectations have increased, too.\r\n\r\nAbrahams said, \"We took \'the one\' too literally, as if it meant \'only one\', and we over-relied on this one mere mortal to be our one and only – our \'everything\'.\"\r\n<h3>2. That your partner can be your everything</h3>\r\nQuestion for you: How much do you depend on your partner?\r\n\r\n\"For many partners, the fairytale beginning often turns into a nightmare due to the weight of the expectations that are based on fantasy, not reality. It’s simply not possible for one person to be our everything.\"\r\n\r\n\"It\'s just too much pressure on one person. I have seen relationships go through horrendous times because the fantasy partner created at the beginning of a relationship isn’t sustainable.\"\r\n\r\nThink back to the beginning of your relationship, and how different things were. There was that \'specialness fantasy\', where everything felt really new and exciting.\r\n\r\nThe butterflies-in-the-stomach, the crazy sex, the flirty comments, the interesting discussions that would last for ages...\r\n\r\n\"At the beginning of a relationship, both partners often create a fantasy partner to show we are better than any other potential mates out there. It’s all a bit of a performance. It’s a lovely performance, but it’s a performance, nonetheless. We find our mate for life, move in together and at this point the partners reveal their more ordinary aspects.\"\r\n\r\n\"It can feel brutal when our beloved takes their eyes off us more as it made us feel so secure and special. It can feel disastrous when the frequent sex diminishes, and we are left wanting.\"\r\n\r\n\"Many partners are devastated that their partner doesn’t parent the children the way they expect – saying, \'I thought he would be such a great dad.\' I often ask – why? As none of us know how to really be a parent until we have a child.\"\r\n\r\n\"Some partners cannot comprehend how their partner didn’t become more serious about their career and has a lower earning capacity than they expected. Some can’t deal with their partner not being \'the rock\' they need in difficult times.\"\r\n<h3>3. That we own our partner</h3>\r\nYeah, this one is a bit yucky. But it\'s actually super common and you probably don\'t even realise you\'re doing it.\r\n\r\n\"The word \'my\' implies ownership. We use the word \'my\' to refer to my husband, wife, or partner. We may allow ourselves to treat them in ways we deem acceptable because they are \'ours\',\" said Abrahams.\r\n\r\n\"We overlay our relationship rules and expectations and expect them to comply so that we feel safe in the relationship. We can also control and manipulate them to do this.\"\r\n\r\nAccording to Abrahams, being committed should not equate to ownership. Remember, they\'re their own person.\r\n\r\n\"We are both separate and unique beings whose worlds collided some time ago, and we decided to remain together. The more we recognise each other’s separateness, the healthier our relationship will be.\"\r\n<h3>4. That we can change our partner</h3>\r\nMaybe it\'s the fact your partner still can\'t get along with your friends and family. Perhaps it\'s their forgetfulness of important details and dates. Or the fact they\'re not as career driven as you once thought.\r\n\r\nBut if you\'re forever trying to change your partner, their personalities traits and the qualities that make them who they are - you\'re going to have a bad time. Because needing to control your partner\'s actions and thoughts is... not healthy.\r\n\r\nOften, this can be linked to our ego, which can cause us to project inadequacy onto our partner, and see their faults and limitations.\r\n\r\n\"If you think you can change your partner – save your breath and change yourself. Ask yourself – why do they need to change? How can I get some of my needs met in a different way? Are they really needs or are they expectations based on how I was shaped by external forces across life?\"\r\n\r\n\"We should anticipate that both of us will change over time and that we’ll be confronted with disappointment and even feelings of betrayal. This is because we have over-invested in our partner being our everything.\"\r\n\r\nThe answer? I know we\'re starting to sound like a broken record, but it\'s all about keeping your boundaries and sense of individuality.\r\n\r\nLearn to lean on others in the different communities you belong to for different reasons - whether it be your friends, family or your work colleagues. Because your partner isn\'t the answer to all of life\'s problems - you have other people in your life for a good reason!\r\n\r\n\"I recommend we take some pressure off relationships so they can be less fantasy-filled and more reality-based. Your friends can be your confidante, your work colleagues can be fun and enlivening, your sex life will alter across time - and it’s not always doom and gloom if it does.\"\r\n\r\nAbrahams said relationships prosper when both people maintain a level of independence within their own lives.\r\n\r\n\"Both of you will change over time as life changes all of us. Expectations need adjusting to life\'s changes and the reality of who our partner is, not who we want them to be.\"\r\n\r\nNow, read that last line again.\r\n\r\n<em>If you would like to learn more from Lissy Abrahams, check out her e-book on <strong><a href=\"https://www.lissyabrahams.com/service/what-makes-a-couple-relationship-a-happy-one/\">what makes a couple\'s relationship happy</a></strong>.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>Lissy Abrahams is part of Mamamia\'s health panel. She is a leading individual and couple psychotherapist who has dedicated her career to helping hundreds of clients navigate life’s obstacles and challenges. Lissy founded and manages the Sydney-based therapy clinic, Heath Group Practice, and works therapeutically with clients around the world. She has published academic work and launched a successful online course to help partners stop fighting and communicate respectfully. Her latest book is \'Relationship Reset\', due for release on 26th July.\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781760989781/relationship-reset/\">UPDATE: OUT NOW</a></strong></em>','What to know about your \'relational template\' and how it affects the way you treat your partner.',' Relationships can be TOUGH. And while things like cheating and trust issues are some very obvious red...','inherit','closed','closed','','5362-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 10:04:06','2022-09-28 10:04:06','',5362,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5365',0,'revision','',0),(5366,3,'2022-09-28 10:04:06','2022-09-28 10:04:06','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.2 - 21-08-2022 */<br />.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>\r\n<h1>Mamam!a</h1>\r\nArticle - source: Mamamia\r\n<h2>\"It’s just too much pressure\": 4 relationship \'expectations\' you need to ditch immediately</h2>\r\n17 July 2022\r\n\r\nWhen it comes to thinking about what kind of partner you want in your life, it\'s common to have a few non-negotiables on the list.\r\n\r\nWhether it\'s thinking there should always be a romantic \'spark\', avoiding conflict or expecting a certain amount of sex - everyone has a different set of deal breakers when they\'re dating.\r\n\r\nWatch: Here are some of the biggest relationship red flags you need to look out for.\r\n\r\nBut while everyone\'s expectations of a healthy relationship might be a little different, and it\'s normal for yours to be different from your partner\'s, how do we know if we’re asking too much from the person we\'re dating?\r\n\r\nIn fact, how do we develop all of these expectations in the first place?\r\n\r\nWell, apparently it\'s ingrained in us throughout our childhood.\r\n\r\nCouples counsellor Lissy Abrahams said that when we\'re children, we form our own unique \"relational template\", and later this can alter across adulthood due to other couple relationships.\r\n\r\n\"These were shaped by our parents, extended family, our culture, religion, film and television, teachers, friends and not friends, governments, celebrities, and more. We didn’t form expectations from nowhere,\" she said.\r\n\r\n\"They’ve been shaped inside us, and we often take them to be a fact – that is, how partners should and shouldn’t behave and feel in a couple relationship. So many of the expectations are formed around safety. Divorce has meant that we now fear losing our partner more than at any other time in history.\"\r\n\r\nAnd while some of these expectations might be helpful to the health of your relationship, forever focusing on the \'dos\' and \'don\'ts\' and where your relationship \'should\' be going and where it \'shouldn\'t\', might be a hindrance.\r\n\r\nAnd when you\'re happy in love, it can be pretty hard to miss these signs.\r\n\r\nSo, that\'s why we\'ve brought in our expert.\r\n\r\nHere, Abrahams tells us some of the biggest unrealistic relationship expectations we need to ditch, immediately.\r\n\r\n<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.2 - 21-08-2022 */<br />.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}</style>\r\n<h3>1. That your partner needs to be your everything</h3>\r\nAccording to our expert, this one is a fairly new belief. And it\'s actually more damaging than you might think.\r\n\r\n\"It’s only in the more recent decades that we have this notion,\" said Abrahams.\r\n\r\n\"We expect a soulmate, a lover, a confidante, a therapist, [someone with whom to] raise children and be a great parent to our children,\" said Abrahams.\r\n\r\n\"That they are amazingly attentive to us, work hard, manage a household, buy us lovely presents on special occasions, navigate the gap in our love languages, make us happy, financially have our back, help us buy a home, are great with our family and friends and so much more.\"\r\n\r\nAnyone else exhausted just reading that?!\r\n\r\nBut apparently, according to Abrahams, these are the sort of things we have ended up expecting from our partner over the decades, and we can often feel a sense of betrayal or distress when they fall short.\r\n\r\nThese days, our expectations of what makes a relationship \'healthy\' and how things should be is quite different to what they were years ago. And they can actually sabotage our connection with someone before they make them better.\r\n\r\n\"Partnerships of the past were often defined by a marriage, yet the expectations were nothing like they are today. They were both a property and a reproduction arrangement. Love was not part of the pact,\" explains Abrahams.\r\n\r\n\"Friendship wasn\'t even necessary. If they experienced love or friendship, it was a bonus, yet never a prerequisite. Partners had their respective gender roles and love was often sought out elsewhere and didn’t typically destabilise the unit.\"\r\n\r\nObviously times have changed, but with it we\'ve developed high and often unreasonable expectations in order to form what we think is a well-rounded partnership.\r\n\r\n\"Expectations grew over time as people moved to cities, away from family. We were no longer having a village meet our needs and now turned to our spouse to meet these. Then women became more educated, joined the workforce and became more independent.\"\r\n\r\n\"Women were also able to control their bodies and pregnancies through pharmaceuticals. Sex could be enjoyed more without the fear of falling pregnant. There was then a freedom to choose one\'s partner, and this is where fantasies of \'the one\' became unrealistic.\"\r\n\r\nAnd just to be clear, it\'s the same for men - their expectations have increased, too.\r\n\r\nAbrahams said, \"We took \'the one\' too literally, as if it meant \'only one\', and we over-relied on this one mere mortal to be our one and only – our \'everything\'.\"\r\n<h3>2. That your partner can be your everything</h3>\r\nQuestion for you: How much do you depend on your partner?\r\n\r\n\"For many partners, the fairytale beginning often turns into a nightmare due to the weight of the expectations that are based on fantasy, not reality. It’s simply not possible for one person to be our everything.\"\r\n\r\n\"It\'s just too much pressure on one person. I have seen relationships go through horrendous times because the fantasy partner created at the beginning of a relationship isn’t sustainable.\"\r\n\r\nThink back to the beginning of your relationship, and how different things were. There was that \'specialness fantasy\', where everything felt really new and exciting.\r\n\r\nThe butterflies-in-the-stomach, the crazy sex, the flirty comments, the interesting discussions that would last for ages...\r\n\r\n\"At the beginning of a relationship, both partners often create a fantasy partner to show we are better than any other potential mates out there. It’s all a bit of a performance. It’s a lovely performance, but it’s a performance, nonetheless. We find our mate for life, move in together and at this point the partners reveal their more ordinary aspects.\"\r\n\r\n\"It can feel brutal when our beloved takes their eyes off us more as it made us feel so secure and special. It can feel disastrous when the frequent sex diminishes, and we are left wanting.\"\r\n\r\n\"Many partners are devastated that their partner doesn’t parent the children the way they expect – saying, \'I thought he would be such a great dad.\' I often ask – why? As none of us know how to really be a parent until we have a child.\"\r\n\r\n\"Some partners cannot comprehend how their partner didn’t become more serious about their career and has a lower earning capacity than they expected. Some can’t deal with their partner not being \'the rock\' they need in difficult times.\"\r\n<h3>3. That we own our partner</h3>\r\nYeah, this one is a bit yucky. But it\'s actually super common and you probably don\'t even realise you\'re doing it.\r\n\r\n\"The word \'my\' implies ownership. We use the word \'my\' to refer to my husband, wife, or partner. We may allow ourselves to treat them in ways we deem acceptable because they are \'ours\',\" said Abrahams.\r\n\r\n\"We overlay our relationship rules and expectations and expect them to comply so that we feel safe in the relationship. We can also control and manipulate them to do this.\"\r\n\r\nAccording to Abrahams, being committed should not equate to ownership. Remember, they\'re their own person.\r\n\r\n\"We are both separate and unique beings whose worlds collided some time ago, and we decided to remain together. The more we recognise each other’s separateness, the healthier our relationship will be.\"\r\n<h3>4. That we can change our partner</h3>\r\nMaybe it\'s the fact your partner still can\'t get along with your friends and family. Perhaps it\'s their forgetfulness of important details and dates. Or the fact they\'re not as career driven as you once thought.\r\n\r\nBut if you\'re forever trying to change your partner, their personalities traits and the qualities that make them who they are - you\'re going to have a bad time. Because needing to control your partner\'s actions and thoughts is... not healthy.\r\n\r\nOften, this can be linked to our ego, which can cause us to project inadequacy onto our partner, and see their faults and limitations.\r\n\r\n\"If you think you can change your partner – save your breath and change yourself. Ask yourself – why do they need to change? How can I get some of my needs met in a different way? Are they really needs or are they expectations based on how I was shaped by external forces across life?\"\r\n\r\n\"We should anticipate that both of us will change over time and that we’ll be confronted with disappointment and even feelings of betrayal. This is because we have over-invested in our partner being our everything.\"\r\n\r\nThe answer? I know we\'re starting to sound like a broken record, but it\'s all about keeping your boundaries and sense of individuality.\r\n\r\nLearn to lean on others in the different communities you belong to for different reasons - whether it be your friends, family or your work colleagues. Because your partner isn\'t the answer to all of life\'s problems - you have other people in your life for a good reason!\r\n\r\n\"I recommend we take some pressure off relationships so they can be less fantasy-filled and more reality-based. Your friends can be your confidante, your work colleagues can be fun and enlivening, your sex life will alter across time - and it’s not always doom and gloom if it does.\"\r\n\r\nAbrahams said relationships prosper when both people maintain a level of independence within their own lives.\r\n\r\n\"Both of you will change over time as life changes all of us. Expectations need adjusting to life\'s changes and the reality of who our partner is, not who we want them to be.\"\r\n\r\nNow, read that last line again.\r\n\r\n<em>If you would like to learn more from Lissy Abrahams, check out her e-book on <strong><a href=\"https://www.lissyabrahams.com/service/what-makes-a-couple-relationship-a-happy-one/\">what makes a couple\'s relationship happy</a></strong>.</em>\r\n\r\n<em>Lissy Abrahams is part of Mamamia\'s health panel. She is a leading individual and couple psychotherapist who has dedicated her career to helping hundreds of clients navigate life’s obstacles and challenges. Lissy founded and manages the Sydney-based therapy clinic, Heath Group Practice, and works therapeutically with clients around the world. She has published academic work and launched a successful online course to help partners stop fighting and communicate respectfully. Her latest book is \'Relationship Reset\', due for release on 26th July.\r\n<strong><a href=\"https://www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781760989781/relationship-reset/\">UPDATE: OUT NOW</a></strong></em>','What to know about your \'relational template\' and how it affects the way you treat your partner.',' Relationships can be TOUGH. And while things like cheating and trust issues are some very obvious red...','inherit','closed','closed','','5362-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 10:04:06','2022-09-28 10:04:06','',5362,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5366',0,'revision','',0),(5367,3,'2022-09-28 10:04:07','2022-09-28 10:04:07','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Mamam!a            \n        </h1>\n            Article - source: Mamamia        \n            <h2>\n                What to know about your \'relational template\' and how it affects the way you treat your partner.            \n        </h2>\n            14 August 2022        \n		<p>How we respond and react to our partner in our committed adult relationships is predominantly related to our childhood experiences with our parents or primary caregivers. </p><p>These early influences on our lives create an imprint of relationships, which we may or may not be aware of. </p><p>This imprint is like a relational template, which shapes our ideas and expectations of relationships and of how we and our partner should communicate and behave in our relationship.</p><p>Our mind and body are wired to relate to our partner according to this relational template.</p><h3><strong>Relational templates in couple relationships</strong></h3><p> </p><p>In any relationship, we’ll share some beliefs with our partner about how relationships should work, but we never have the same relational templates. That’s because we have lived in different homes, had different families and had completely different experiences.</p><p>It’s important for us to remember this, as we often create a fantasy that we should have similar views, expectations and behaviours in relationships. Even though it would be convenient if this were the case, this simply can’t occur, as we’re two very different beings and our life experiences have left us with different relational imprints.</p><p>Below are just a few examples of life experiences that would differ from our partner’s experiences, creating differing parental responses and contributing to our different relational templates:</p>		\n			<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://www.lissyabrahams.com/wp-content/plugins/elementor/assets/css/widget-icon-list.min.css\">		<ul>\n							<li>\n										Parents’ expectations or rules\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Parents’ capacity to emotionally see us as a child\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Sense of parental protectiveness and safety\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Parents’ own relationship: conflict, capacity for repair, their ability to apologise, gestures of love\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Parents’ separation or divorce\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Parental experiences with extended families\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Family trauma such as early parental death or illness, poverty, a sudden loss of money, or being a migrant\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Own separation or divorce\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Relationships with siblings and birth order\n									</li>\n						</ul>\n		<p>We can see how these experiences shape our mind, our relational wiring, how we absorb and process information and experiences, and how we feel about them. </p><p>These life experiences shape our ability to tolerate different viewpoints, and influence whether we listen well to our partner or find it difficult. They also influence what we react to and how, and what sets us off into fight-or-flight mode.</p><p>We all grow up in environments that are uniquely ours. Therefore, in our relationship we’ll always encounter differences that we’ll need to work through together. We all have different triggers and behave differently in fight-or-flight mode. </p><p>We all have different thoughts about conflict: who was right or wrong? Who was to blame? Who started it? And we all have a different understanding of why we fight with our partner. All these beliefs and behaviours define our default expectations, rules for safety and non-negotiables in our relationship.</p><p>Our relational template will determine how we react to our partner when our expectations of each other and our relationship differ. Sometimes we can talk through differences; other times we can’t. Sometimes we can feel frightened by our partner’s actions, words or behaviour. </p><p>Our relational templates are different, and the gap between them can be perceived as a threat.</p><p>Understanding our relational templates is critical if we want or need to reduce conflict and form a healthier relationship with our partner.</p><h3><strong>Why it\'s important to understand your relational template</strong></h3><p>We all need to examine how our childhood experiences persist inside of us today, and how this impacts our relationship. Only when we make these connections, can we change the dynamic of our couple conflict. We, as individuals, can make our relationship better.</p><p>In the first one or two sessions with a new client or couple, I always seek some access to their relational template and wiring. I simply ask them about their relationship with their parents and what their parents’ relationship was like growing up. </p><p>By understanding how we’re relationally wired, we can learn how to avoid getting into the emotional boxing ring, and if we do happen to find ourselves there, we can exit faster with fewer body blows. When we understand this, we can then understand why we really fight with our partner. This is a game changer.</p><p>To do this, we’ll look at our experiences with parents or caregivers where we felt secure and protected, as well as experiences where we felt less safe or less protected. This will offer clues about our relational wiring and help us understand why and how we fight with our partner. This exercise isn’t about blaming or shaming anyone.</p><p>It’s not about accusing our parents or judging them for how we were raised. This is about objectively considering what happened in the past to understand how our relational wiring impacts our adult relationship today.</p><p>I’d love for everyone to see how normal it is to have couple conflict. The truth is that couple relationships are often messy and complicated. </p><p>During the dizzy joy of the honeymoon period, we often have no idea that we can end up locked in confusing and exhausting cycles of conflict. We have no idea that at the heart of these episodes is fear and a lack of safety. </p><p>But this is not new – this is from our childhood and was encoded way back then.</p><h3><strong>Safety and trust develop in childhood</strong></h3><p>We’re not born feeling safe. In fact, it’s the opposite. Just think of a newborn baby with no ability to dress itself, feed itself or even soothe itself. From the moment they’re born, they’re completely dependent on their parents for their survival. This enormous dependency means danger and threat is never far away. When we hear a hungry baby crying, it pulls at our heartstrings because their distress is so evident. They can’t go to the fridge and grab a snack.</p><p>They’re literally screaming for their lives, and their nervous system is registering danger and threat.</p><p>As a baby, our sense of safety develops when we’re with parents who protect, feed, soothe and nurture us. We learn to feel safe knowing our parents are with us, attending to things we simply can’t do yet.</p><p>As children, it is written deeply into our mammalian core that it’s our parents’ job to keep us safe. That’s why children instinctively seek their parents when they’re hurt or afraid. </p><p>When our parents protect us, meet our basic needs, comfort us and are available to us, we learn we can really trust them. These experiences calm our nervous system, and we feel safe.</p><p>When parents take care of our physical and emotional safety, we can have some scrapes, be soothed by them, recover and re-establish our feelings of being protected. </p><p>We will still experience fear and danger, but we know our parent will comfort us. When these experiences are repeated during our childhood, we learn to tolerate upsetting and distressing experiences. This is how we become more resilient, and all of these moments of comfort and soothing are encoded in our relational wiring.</p><p>It’s important to note that no parent can offer perfect protection and safety; we have all had some experiences where our parents were not physically or emotionally able to help us feel secure.</p><p>Parents are also human, and they can be out of line at times, or maybe even a little frightening. There will always be ruptures or difficulties in parent–child relationships, but what’s critical is how they’re repaired.</p><p>When our parent repeatedly sees that we’re slightly frightened or are feeling an absence of protection from them and they’re apologetic, this becomes an established pattern that we learn to rely on.</p><p>As they repeatedly re-establish trust with us, we’re more likely to develop distress tolerance, which we carry through to our adult relationships. This is how our relational wiring around safety and trust develops – through our parent–child relationships.</p><h3><strong>The theory of relational wiring</strong></h3><p>The importance of security and safety in childhood has been extensively studied across the world through a body of research and clinical work called attachment theory, and it forms the basis of our relational wiring. </p><p>This work, started by John Bowlby, examines the types of emotional bonds children form with their parents or primary caregivers. He described attachment as a special emotional relationship that involves an exchange of comfort, care and pleasure.</p><p>It’s easy to understand how a baby would see their parent or primary caregiver as an attachment figure. As babies, we normally don’t have many primary attachment figures – sometimes just one – with whom we share that exchange. </p><p>We’ve already talked about how vulnerable and dependent a baby truly is, so having an attachment figure who is focused on them increases their chance of survival.</p><p>Researchers were interested in the distress behaviours babies revealed when they were left alone by their parent (attachment figure) and were suddenly feeling vulnerable and unsafe. Any parent whose baby cries when they go to the toilet will know exactly how this feels. </p><p>What’s important to take away from this is that loss or the threat of loss is central to psychological distress.</p><h3><strong>Research: The Adult Attachment Interview</strong></h3><p>The Adult Attachment Interview was a protocol developed in 1985 using a semi-structured interview with participants to determine their mental representations of their childhood attachment experiences. The aim is to get a sense of their relational template.</p><p>It’s a complex interview, and requires training to conduct. In a nutshell, it focuses on two key areas:</p><p>1. Eliciting the subject’s memories and their relationship with their parent(s) in childhood, including how they coped.</p><p>2. The extent to which they evaluated or integrated those experiences as an adult today, and their current relationships with their parent(s).</p><p>The subjects were also assessed for the coherence of their narrative. This was done by assessing how truthful and consistent they were, whether there was too little or too much information provided, how relevant the material was, and finally whether they were clear in the interview.</p><p>This research was groundbreaking. It found that our adult attachment styles map onto our infant attachment styles. They weren’t always an exact fit, but there was typically a style that fitted more than others.</p><p>The names of the categories in childhood and adulthood are essentially the same, or very similar. Let me show you how.</p><p>If a child was securely attached, then as an adult they were likely to be securely attached. They became resilient adults.</p><p>If a child was insecurely attached then they were as an adult, too. There were three similar styles that corresponded to these.</p><p>1. An ambivalently attached child became a preoccupied adult – think of the clingy/angry style.</p><p>2. An avoidantly attached child created a fortress and continued to do so as an adult with a dismissing attachment style.</p><p>Essentially, what this reveals is that our minds were relationally wired by twelve to eighteen months of age, and this becomes our relational template in adulthood. This template carries our expectations and beliefs about relationships, how we believe we should or shouldn’t treat or be treated by our partner, and our capacity to tolerate distress, or not.</p><p>We have no idea that our attachment style plays out in our adult behaviour and relationships. We just think ‘this is me,’ and that dictates what we believe and how we behave. We don’t question why we behave in a sulky or childlike manner, nor do we see a problem with our blaming, critical or aloof behaviour. It’s just who we are, right? Well, no – it’s how we’ve always behaved according to our relational wiring, but it’s not who we are.</p><p>We all know someone who makes the same ‘mistakes’ in relationships, leaving friends scratching their heads, wondering when they’ll learn their lesson. We can even be that person! The reason we repeat relationship ‘mistakes’ is due to our relational template. </p><p>Let’s look at the adult attachment styles in more detail.</p>		\n			<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}</style><h3>1. Secure adult attachment: resilient style</h3>		\n		<p>Adults with a secure attachment style -</p>		\n					<ul>\n							<li>\n										Are independent and self-reliant\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Are confident\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Have trusting, close and enduring relationships in life\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Can speak about their own emotions\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Are aware of other people’s needs and emotions\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Can rely on others when needed\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Developed distress tolerance\n									</li>\n						</ul>\n			<h3>2. Insecure adult attachment. Preoccupied adult attachment: clingy/angry style</h3>		\n		<p>Adults with a clingy/angry attachment style -</p>		\n					<ul>\n							<li>\n										Are needy, requiring ongoing reassurance from their partner, fearing rejection or abandonment worry/are anxious that their partner doesn’t love them.\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Have trouble trusting others\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Lack impulse control, can be angry, unpredictable or moody\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Connect through conflict\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Blame others, not acknowledging their own responsibility\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Are overly sensitive to their partner’s emotional and physical whereabouts\n									</li>\n						</ul>\n		<p>These adults become preoccupied with the relationship; they can’t find a comfortable way of being in it. Their parent was sometimes there for them and sometimes not, and this left a mark on them that affects how they behave as adults.</p>		\n			<h3>3. Dismissing adult attachment: fortress style</h3>		\n		<p>Partners with this attachment style are often dragged into couples therapy by their partner. They don\'t like talking about their feelings, as they\'re just not used to doing so. Characteristics of the adult fortress attachment style include -</p>		\n					<ul>\n							<li>\n										Communicates in an intellectual and controlled manner\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Is distant emotionally and rejects others’ emotions\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Invests little emotion in social or romantic relationships\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Shows a narrow or limited emotional range\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Is unable or unwilling to share thoughts and feelings with others\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Is unable to depend on others or unable to allow their partner to depend on them\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Prefers independence and autonomy over depending on others\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Shows a calm exterior, typically hiding their anxiety\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Uses distraction from feelings, such as work or exercise\n									</li>\n						</ul>\n			<h3>4. Unresolved/disorganised adult attachment: no strategy style</h3>		\n		<p>Typical behaviours of the unresolved/disorganised adult attachment style include -</p>		\n					<ul>\n							<li>\n										Has traumatic memories, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or dissociation\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Struggles with mood and anxiety – depression, overwhelm, a sense of disconnection, a fear of abandonment, helplessness, rage, feeling trapped or irritable\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Relies on substances (drugs and/or alcohol)\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Is unable to understand their own feelings or recognise the mental states of others (including their partner)\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Lacks trust, empathy and remorse for others\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Shows chaotic or unpredictable emotional states\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Is unable to tolerate intimacy in a relationship\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										May be narcissistic or appear to be narcissistic\n									</li>\n						</ul>\n			<h3>The good news</h3>		\n		<p>The good news for all of us is that these attachment styles aren’t fixed for life. The concept of earned secure attachment applies to people who have made sense of and created meaning from past experiences with their parents that led to insecure attachment.</p><p>With earned secure attachment, we accept these past experiences and escape the hold they have over our lives. This enables us to relate to our partner in a healthier way and remove the soul-destroying episodes of conflict from our relationship. It is an important component for decreasing couple conflict.</p><p><a href=\"https://www.booktopia.com.au/relationship-reset-lissy-abrahams/book/9781760989781.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Relationship Reset</em></a> is published by <a href=\"https://www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781760989781/relationship-reset/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pan Macmillan Australia</a> and is available now from Booktopia, Book Depository, Amazon and all the other online bookstores. </p><p><em>For more from Lissy Abrahams, you can follow her on </em><a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lissy.abrahams/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Instagram</em></a><em>.</em></p><p><em>Feature image: Getty</em></p>','What to know about your \'relational template\' and how it affects the way you treat your partner.',' Relationships can be TOUGH. And while things like cheating and trust issues are some very obvious red...','inherit','closed','closed','','5362-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 10:04:07','2022-09-28 10:04:07','',5362,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5367',0,'revision','',0),(5368,3,'2022-09-28 10:04:39','2022-09-28 10:04:39','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Mamam!a            \n        </h1>\n            Article - source: Mamamia        \n            <h2>\n                What to know about your \'relational template\' and how it affects the way you treat your partner.            \n        </h2>\n            14 August 2022        \n		<p>How we respond and react to our partner in our committed adult relationships is predominantly related to our childhood experiences with our parents or primary caregivers. </p><p>These early influences on our lives create an imprint of relationships, which we may or may not be aware of. </p><p>This imprint is like a relational template, which shapes our ideas and expectations of relationships and of how we and our partner should communicate and behave in our relationship.</p><p>Our mind and body are wired to relate to our partner according to this relational template.</p><h3><strong>Relational templates in couple relationships</strong></h3><p> </p><p>In any relationship, we’ll share some beliefs with our partner about how relationships should work, but we never have the same relational templates. That’s because we have lived in different homes, had different families and had completely different experiences.</p><p>It’s important for us to remember this, as we often create a fantasy that we should have similar views, expectations and behaviours in relationships. Even though it would be convenient if this were the case, this simply can’t occur, as we’re two very different beings and our life experiences have left us with different relational imprints.</p><p>Below are just a few examples of life experiences that would differ from our partner’s experiences, creating differing parental responses and contributing to our different relational templates:</p>		\n			<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://www.lissyabrahams.com/wp-content/plugins/elementor/assets/css/widget-icon-list.min.css\">		<ul>\n							<li>\n										Parents’ expectations or rules\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Parents’ capacity to emotionally see us as a child\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Sense of parental protectiveness and safety\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Parents’ own relationship: conflict, capacity for repair, their ability to apologise, gestures of love\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Parents’ separation or divorce\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Parental experiences with extended families\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Family trauma such as early parental death or illness, poverty, a sudden loss of money, or being a migrant\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Own separation or divorce\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Relationships with siblings and birth order\n									</li>\n						</ul>\n		<p>We can see how these experiences shape our mind, our relational wiring, how we absorb and process information and experiences, and how we feel about them. </p><p>These life experiences shape our ability to tolerate different viewpoints, and influence whether we listen well to our partner or find it difficult. They also influence what we react to and how, and what sets us off into fight-or-flight mode.</p><p>We all grow up in environments that are uniquely ours. Therefore, in our relationship we’ll always encounter differences that we’ll need to work through together. We all have different triggers and behave differently in fight-or-flight mode. </p><p>We all have different thoughts about conflict: who was right or wrong? Who was to blame? Who started it? And we all have a different understanding of why we fight with our partner. All these beliefs and behaviours define our default expectations, rules for safety and non-negotiables in our relationship.</p><p>Our relational template will determine how we react to our partner when our expectations of each other and our relationship differ. Sometimes we can talk through differences; other times we can’t. Sometimes we can feel frightened by our partner’s actions, words or behaviour. </p><p>Our relational templates are different, and the gap between them can be perceived as a threat.</p><p>Understanding our relational templates is critical if we want or need to reduce conflict and form a healthier relationship with our partner.</p><h3><strong>Why it\'s important to understand your relational template</strong></h3><p>We all need to examine how our childhood experiences persist inside of us today, and how this impacts our relationship. Only when we make these connections, can we change the dynamic of our couple conflict. We, as individuals, can make our relationship better.</p><p>In the first one or two sessions with a new client or couple, I always seek some access to their relational template and wiring. I simply ask them about their relationship with their parents and what their parents’ relationship was like growing up. </p><p>By understanding how we’re relationally wired, we can learn how to avoid getting into the emotional boxing ring, and if we do happen to find ourselves there, we can exit faster with fewer body blows. When we understand this, we can then understand why we really fight with our partner. This is a game changer.</p><p>To do this, we’ll look at our experiences with parents or caregivers where we felt secure and protected, as well as experiences where we felt less safe or less protected. This will offer clues about our relational wiring and help us understand why and how we fight with our partner. This exercise isn’t about blaming or shaming anyone.</p><p>It’s not about accusing our parents or judging them for how we were raised. This is about objectively considering what happened in the past to understand how our relational wiring impacts our adult relationship today.</p><p>I’d love for everyone to see how normal it is to have couple conflict. The truth is that couple relationships are often messy and complicated. </p><p>During the dizzy joy of the honeymoon period, we often have no idea that we can end up locked in confusing and exhausting cycles of conflict. We have no idea that at the heart of these episodes is fear and a lack of safety. </p><p>But this is not new – this is from our childhood and was encoded way back then.</p><h3><strong>Safety and trust develop in childhood</strong></h3><p>We’re not born feeling safe. In fact, it’s the opposite. Just think of a newborn baby with no ability to dress itself, feed itself or even soothe itself. From the moment they’re born, they’re completely dependent on their parents for their survival. This enormous dependency means danger and threat is never far away. When we hear a hungry baby crying, it pulls at our heartstrings because their distress is so evident. They can’t go to the fridge and grab a snack.</p><p>They’re literally screaming for their lives, and their nervous system is registering danger and threat.</p><p>As a baby, our sense of safety develops when we’re with parents who protect, feed, soothe and nurture us. We learn to feel safe knowing our parents are with us, attending to things we simply can’t do yet.</p><p>As children, it is written deeply into our mammalian core that it’s our parents’ job to keep us safe. That’s why children instinctively seek their parents when they’re hurt or afraid. </p><p>When our parents protect us, meet our basic needs, comfort us and are available to us, we learn we can really trust them. These experiences calm our nervous system, and we feel safe.</p><p>When parents take care of our physical and emotional safety, we can have some scrapes, be soothed by them, recover and re-establish our feelings of being protected. </p><p>We will still experience fear and danger, but we know our parent will comfort us. When these experiences are repeated during our childhood, we learn to tolerate upsetting and distressing experiences. This is how we become more resilient, and all of these moments of comfort and soothing are encoded in our relational wiring.</p><p>It’s important to note that no parent can offer perfect protection and safety; we have all had some experiences where our parents were not physically or emotionally able to help us feel secure.</p><p>Parents are also human, and they can be out of line at times, or maybe even a little frightening. There will always be ruptures or difficulties in parent–child relationships, but what’s critical is how they’re repaired.</p><p>When our parent repeatedly sees that we’re slightly frightened or are feeling an absence of protection from them and they’re apologetic, this becomes an established pattern that we learn to rely on.</p><p>As they repeatedly re-establish trust with us, we’re more likely to develop distress tolerance, which we carry through to our adult relationships. This is how our relational wiring around safety and trust develops – through our parent–child relationships.</p><h3><strong>The theory of relational wiring</strong></h3><p>The importance of security and safety in childhood has been extensively studied across the world through a body of research and clinical work called attachment theory, and it forms the basis of our relational wiring. </p><p>This work, started by John Bowlby, examines the types of emotional bonds children form with their parents or primary caregivers. He described attachment as a special emotional relationship that involves an exchange of comfort, care and pleasure.</p><p>It’s easy to understand how a baby would see their parent or primary caregiver as an attachment figure. As babies, we normally don’t have many primary attachment figures – sometimes just one – with whom we share that exchange. </p><p>We’ve already talked about how vulnerable and dependent a baby truly is, so having an attachment figure who is focused on them increases their chance of survival.</p><p>Researchers were interested in the distress behaviours babies revealed when they were left alone by their parent (attachment figure) and were suddenly feeling vulnerable and unsafe. Any parent whose baby cries when they go to the toilet will know exactly how this feels. </p><p>What’s important to take away from this is that loss or the threat of loss is central to psychological distress.</p><h3><strong>Research: The Adult Attachment Interview</strong></h3><p>The Adult Attachment Interview was a protocol developed in 1985 using a semi-structured interview with participants to determine their mental representations of their childhood attachment experiences. The aim is to get a sense of their relational template.</p><p>It’s a complex interview, and requires training to conduct. In a nutshell, it focuses on two key areas:</p><p>1. Eliciting the subject’s memories and their relationship with their parent(s) in childhood, including how they coped.</p><p>2. The extent to which they evaluated or integrated those experiences as an adult today, and their current relationships with their parent(s).</p><p>The subjects were also assessed for the coherence of their narrative. This was done by assessing how truthful and consistent they were, whether there was too little or too much information provided, how relevant the material was, and finally whether they were clear in the interview.</p><p>This research was groundbreaking. It found that our adult attachment styles map onto our infant attachment styles. They weren’t always an exact fit, but there was typically a style that fitted more than others.</p><p>The names of the categories in childhood and adulthood are essentially the same, or very similar. Let me show you how.</p><p>If a child was securely attached, then as an adult they were likely to be securely attached. They became resilient adults.</p><p>If a child was insecurely attached then they were as an adult, too. There were three similar styles that corresponded to these.</p><p>1. An ambivalently attached child became a preoccupied adult – think of the clingy/angry style.</p><p>2. An avoidantly attached child created a fortress and continued to do so as an adult with a dismissing attachment style.</p><p>Essentially, what this reveals is that our minds were relationally wired by twelve to eighteen months of age, and this becomes our relational template in adulthood. This template carries our expectations and beliefs about relationships, how we believe we should or shouldn’t treat or be treated by our partner, and our capacity to tolerate distress, or not.</p><p>We have no idea that our attachment style plays out in our adult behaviour and relationships. We just think ‘this is me,’ and that dictates what we believe and how we behave. We don’t question why we behave in a sulky or childlike manner, nor do we see a problem with our blaming, critical or aloof behaviour. It’s just who we are, right? Well, no – it’s how we’ve always behaved according to our relational wiring, but it’s not who we are.</p><p>We all know someone who makes the same ‘mistakes’ in relationships, leaving friends scratching their heads, wondering when they’ll learn their lesson. We can even be that person! The reason we repeat relationship ‘mistakes’ is due to our relational template. </p><p>Let’s look at the adult attachment styles in more detail.</p>		\n			<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}</style><h3>1. Secure adult attachment: resilient style</h3>		\n		<p>Adults with a secure attachment style -</p>		\n					<ul>\n							<li>\n										Are independent and self-reliant\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Are confident\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Have trusting, close and enduring relationships in life\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Can speak about their own emotions\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Are aware of other people’s needs and emotions\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Can rely on others when needed\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Developed distress tolerance\n									</li>\n						</ul>\n			<h3>2. Insecure adult attachment. Preoccupied adult attachment: clingy/angry style</h3>		\n		<p>Adults with a clingy/angry attachment style -</p>		\n					<ul>\n							<li>\n										Are needy, requiring ongoing reassurance from their partner, fearing rejection or abandonment worry/are anxious that their partner doesn’t love them.\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Have trouble trusting others\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Lack impulse control, can be angry, unpredictable or moody\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Connect through conflict\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Blame others, not acknowledging their own responsibility\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Are overly sensitive to their partner’s emotional and physical whereabouts\n									</li>\n						</ul>\n		<p>These adults become preoccupied with the relationship; they can’t find a comfortable way of being in it. Their parent was sometimes there for them and sometimes not, and this left a mark on them that affects how they behave as adults.</p>		\n			<h3>3. Dismissing adult attachment: fortress style</h3>		\n		<p>Partners with this attachment style are often dragged into couples therapy by their partner. They don\'t like talking about their feelings, as they\'re just not used to doing so. Characteristics of the adult fortress attachment style include -</p>		\n					<ul>\n							<li>\n										Communicates in an intellectual and controlled manner\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Is distant emotionally and rejects others’ emotions\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Invests little emotion in social or romantic relationships\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Shows a narrow or limited emotional range\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Is unable or unwilling to share thoughts and feelings with others\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Is unable to depend on others or unable to allow their partner to depend on them\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Prefers independence and autonomy over depending on others\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Shows a calm exterior, typically hiding their anxiety\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Uses distraction from feelings, such as work or exercise\n									</li>\n						</ul>\n			<h3>4. Unresolved/disorganised adult attachment: no strategy style</h3>		\n		<p>Typical behaviours of the unresolved/disorganised adult attachment style include -</p>		\n					<ul>\n							<li>\n										Has traumatic memories, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or dissociation\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Struggles with mood and anxiety – depression, overwhelm, a sense of disconnection, a fear of abandonment, helplessness, rage, feeling trapped or irritable\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Relies on substances (drugs and/or alcohol)\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Is unable to understand their own feelings or recognise the mental states of others (including their partner)\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Lacks trust, empathy and remorse for others\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Shows chaotic or unpredictable emotional states\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Is unable to tolerate intimacy in a relationship\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										May be narcissistic or appear to be narcissistic\n									</li>\n						</ul>\n			<h3>The good news</h3>		\n		<p>The good news for all of us is that these attachment styles aren’t fixed for life. The concept of earned secure attachment applies to people who have made sense of and created meaning from past experiences with their parents that led to insecure attachment.</p><p>With earned secure attachment, we accept these past experiences and escape the hold they have over our lives. This enables us to relate to our partner in a healthier way and remove the soul-destroying episodes of conflict from our relationship. It is an important component for decreasing couple conflict.</p><p><a href=\"https://www.booktopia.com.au/relationship-reset-lissy-abrahams/book/9781760989781.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Relationship Reset</em></a> is published by <a href=\"https://www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781760989781/relationship-reset/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pan Macmillan Australia</a> and is available now from Booktopia, Book Depository, Amazon and all the other online bookstores. </p><p><em>For more from Lissy Abrahams, you can follow her on </em><a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lissy.abrahams/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Instagram</em></a><em>.</em></p><p><em>Feature image: Getty</em></p>','What to know about your \'relational template\' and how it affects the way you treat your partner.',' Relationships can be TOUGH. And while things like cheating and trust issues are some very obvious red...','inherit','closed','closed','','5362-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 10:04:39','2022-09-28 10:04:39','',5362,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5368',0,'revision','',0),(5369,3,'2022-09-28 10:04:39','2022-09-28 10:04:39','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Mamam!a            \n        </h1>\n            Article - source: Mamamia        \n            <h2>\n                What to know about your \'relational template\' and how it affects the way you treat your partner.            \n        </h2>\n            14 August 2022        \n		<p>How we respond and react to our partner in our committed adult relationships is predominantly related to our childhood experiences with our parents or primary caregivers. </p><p>These early influences on our lives create an imprint of relationships, which we may or may not be aware of. </p><p>This imprint is like a relational template, which shapes our ideas and expectations of relationships and of how we and our partner should communicate and behave in our relationship.</p><p>Our mind and body are wired to relate to our partner according to this relational template.</p><h3><strong>Relational templates in couple relationships</strong></h3><p> </p><p>In any relationship, we’ll share some beliefs with our partner about how relationships should work, but we never have the same relational templates. That’s because we have lived in different homes, had different families and had completely different experiences.</p><p>It’s important for us to remember this, as we often create a fantasy that we should have similar views, expectations and behaviours in relationships. Even though it would be convenient if this were the case, this simply can’t occur, as we’re two very different beings and our life experiences have left us with different relational imprints.</p><p>Below are just a few examples of life experiences that would differ from our partner’s experiences, creating differing parental responses and contributing to our different relational templates:</p>		\n			<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://www.lissyabrahams.com/wp-content/plugins/elementor/assets/css/widget-icon-list.min.css\">		<ul>\n							<li>\n										Parents’ expectations or rules\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Parents’ capacity to emotionally see us as a child\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Sense of parental protectiveness and safety\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Parents’ own relationship: conflict, capacity for repair, their ability to apologise, gestures of love\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Parents’ separation or divorce\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Parental experiences with extended families\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Family trauma such as early parental death or illness, poverty, a sudden loss of money, or being a migrant\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Own separation or divorce\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Relationships with siblings and birth order\n									</li>\n						</ul>\n		<p>We can see how these experiences shape our mind, our relational wiring, how we absorb and process information and experiences, and how we feel about them. </p><p>These life experiences shape our ability to tolerate different viewpoints, and influence whether we listen well to our partner or find it difficult. They also influence what we react to and how, and what sets us off into fight-or-flight mode.</p><p>We all grow up in environments that are uniquely ours. Therefore, in our relationship we’ll always encounter differences that we’ll need to work through together. We all have different triggers and behave differently in fight-or-flight mode. </p><p>We all have different thoughts about conflict: who was right or wrong? Who was to blame? Who started it? And we all have a different understanding of why we fight with our partner. All these beliefs and behaviours define our default expectations, rules for safety and non-negotiables in our relationship.</p><p>Our relational template will determine how we react to our partner when our expectations of each other and our relationship differ. Sometimes we can talk through differences; other times we can’t. Sometimes we can feel frightened by our partner’s actions, words or behaviour. </p><p>Our relational templates are different, and the gap between them can be perceived as a threat.</p><p>Understanding our relational templates is critical if we want or need to reduce conflict and form a healthier relationship with our partner.</p><h3><strong>Why it\'s important to understand your relational template</strong></h3><p>We all need to examine how our childhood experiences persist inside of us today, and how this impacts our relationship. Only when we make these connections, can we change the dynamic of our couple conflict. We, as individuals, can make our relationship better.</p><p>In the first one or two sessions with a new client or couple, I always seek some access to their relational template and wiring. I simply ask them about their relationship with their parents and what their parents’ relationship was like growing up. </p><p>By understanding how we’re relationally wired, we can learn how to avoid getting into the emotional boxing ring, and if we do happen to find ourselves there, we can exit faster with fewer body blows. When we understand this, we can then understand why we really fight with our partner. This is a game changer.</p><p>To do this, we’ll look at our experiences with parents or caregivers where we felt secure and protected, as well as experiences where we felt less safe or less protected. This will offer clues about our relational wiring and help us understand why and how we fight with our partner. This exercise isn’t about blaming or shaming anyone.</p><p>It’s not about accusing our parents or judging them for how we were raised. This is about objectively considering what happened in the past to understand how our relational wiring impacts our adult relationship today.</p><p>I’d love for everyone to see how normal it is to have couple conflict. The truth is that couple relationships are often messy and complicated. </p><p>During the dizzy joy of the honeymoon period, we often have no idea that we can end up locked in confusing and exhausting cycles of conflict. We have no idea that at the heart of these episodes is fear and a lack of safety. </p><p>But this is not new – this is from our childhood and was encoded way back then.</p><h3><strong>Safety and trust develop in childhood</strong></h3><p>We’re not born feeling safe. In fact, it’s the opposite. Just think of a newborn baby with no ability to dress itself, feed itself or even soothe itself. From the moment they’re born, they’re completely dependent on their parents for their survival. This enormous dependency means danger and threat is never far away. When we hear a hungry baby crying, it pulls at our heartstrings because their distress is so evident. They can’t go to the fridge and grab a snack.</p><p>They’re literally screaming for their lives, and their nervous system is registering danger and threat.</p><p>As a baby, our sense of safety develops when we’re with parents who protect, feed, soothe and nurture us. We learn to feel safe knowing our parents are with us, attending to things we simply can’t do yet.</p><p>As children, it is written deeply into our mammalian core that it’s our parents’ job to keep us safe. That’s why children instinctively seek their parents when they’re hurt or afraid. </p><p>When our parents protect us, meet our basic needs, comfort us and are available to us, we learn we can really trust them. These experiences calm our nervous system, and we feel safe.</p><p>When parents take care of our physical and emotional safety, we can have some scrapes, be soothed by them, recover and re-establish our feelings of being protected. </p><p>We will still experience fear and danger, but we know our parent will comfort us. When these experiences are repeated during our childhood, we learn to tolerate upsetting and distressing experiences. This is how we become more resilient, and all of these moments of comfort and soothing are encoded in our relational wiring.</p><p>It’s important to note that no parent can offer perfect protection and safety; we have all had some experiences where our parents were not physically or emotionally able to help us feel secure.</p><p>Parents are also human, and they can be out of line at times, or maybe even a little frightening. There will always be ruptures or difficulties in parent–child relationships, but what’s critical is how they’re repaired.</p><p>When our parent repeatedly sees that we’re slightly frightened or are feeling an absence of protection from them and they’re apologetic, this becomes an established pattern that we learn to rely on.</p><p>As they repeatedly re-establish trust with us, we’re more likely to develop distress tolerance, which we carry through to our adult relationships. This is how our relational wiring around safety and trust develops – through our parent–child relationships.</p><h3><strong>The theory of relational wiring</strong></h3><p>The importance of security and safety in childhood has been extensively studied across the world through a body of research and clinical work called attachment theory, and it forms the basis of our relational wiring. </p><p>This work, started by John Bowlby, examines the types of emotional bonds children form with their parents or primary caregivers. He described attachment as a special emotional relationship that involves an exchange of comfort, care and pleasure.</p><p>It’s easy to understand how a baby would see their parent or primary caregiver as an attachment figure. As babies, we normally don’t have many primary attachment figures – sometimes just one – with whom we share that exchange. </p><p>We’ve already talked about how vulnerable and dependent a baby truly is, so having an attachment figure who is focused on them increases their chance of survival.</p><p>Researchers were interested in the distress behaviours babies revealed when they were left alone by their parent (attachment figure) and were suddenly feeling vulnerable and unsafe. Any parent whose baby cries when they go to the toilet will know exactly how this feels. </p><p>What’s important to take away from this is that loss or the threat of loss is central to psychological distress.</p><h3><strong>Research: The Adult Attachment Interview</strong></h3><p>The Adult Attachment Interview was a protocol developed in 1985 using a semi-structured interview with participants to determine their mental representations of their childhood attachment experiences. The aim is to get a sense of their relational template.</p><p>It’s a complex interview, and requires training to conduct. In a nutshell, it focuses on two key areas:</p><p>1. Eliciting the subject’s memories and their relationship with their parent(s) in childhood, including how they coped.</p><p>2. The extent to which they evaluated or integrated those experiences as an adult today, and their current relationships with their parent(s).</p><p>The subjects were also assessed for the coherence of their narrative. This was done by assessing how truthful and consistent they were, whether there was too little or too much information provided, how relevant the material was, and finally whether they were clear in the interview.</p><p>This research was groundbreaking. It found that our adult attachment styles map onto our infant attachment styles. They weren’t always an exact fit, but there was typically a style that fitted more than others.</p><p>The names of the categories in childhood and adulthood are essentially the same, or very similar. Let me show you how.</p><p>If a child was securely attached, then as an adult they were likely to be securely attached. They became resilient adults.</p><p>If a child was insecurely attached then they were as an adult, too. There were three similar styles that corresponded to these.</p><p>1. An ambivalently attached child became a preoccupied adult – think of the clingy/angry style.</p><p>2. An avoidantly attached child created a fortress and continued to do so as an adult with a dismissing attachment style.</p><p>Essentially, what this reveals is that our minds were relationally wired by twelve to eighteen months of age, and this becomes our relational template in adulthood. This template carries our expectations and beliefs about relationships, how we believe we should or shouldn’t treat or be treated by our partner, and our capacity to tolerate distress, or not.</p><p>We have no idea that our attachment style plays out in our adult behaviour and relationships. We just think ‘this is me,’ and that dictates what we believe and how we behave. We don’t question why we behave in a sulky or childlike manner, nor do we see a problem with our blaming, critical or aloof behaviour. It’s just who we are, right? Well, no – it’s how we’ve always behaved according to our relational wiring, but it’s not who we are.</p><p>We all know someone who makes the same ‘mistakes’ in relationships, leaving friends scratching their heads, wondering when they’ll learn their lesson. We can even be that person! The reason we repeat relationship ‘mistakes’ is due to our relational template. </p><p>Let’s look at the adult attachment styles in more detail.</p>		\n			<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}</style><h3>1. Secure adult attachment: resilient style</h3>		\n		<p>Adults with a secure attachment style -</p>		\n					<ul>\n							<li>\n										Are independent and self-reliant\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Are confident\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Have trusting, close and enduring relationships in life\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Can speak about their own emotions\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Are aware of other people’s needs and emotions\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Can rely on others when needed\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Developed distress tolerance\n									</li>\n						</ul>\n			<h3>2. Insecure adult attachment. Preoccupied adult attachment: clingy/angry style</h3>		\n		<p>Adults with a clingy/angry attachment style -</p>		\n					<ul>\n							<li>\n										Are needy, requiring ongoing reassurance from their partner, fearing rejection or abandonment worry/are anxious that their partner doesn’t love them.\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Have trouble trusting others\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Lack impulse control, can be angry, unpredictable or moody\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Connect through conflict\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Blame others, not acknowledging their own responsibility\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Are overly sensitive to their partner’s emotional and physical whereabouts\n									</li>\n						</ul>\n		<p>These adults become preoccupied with the relationship; they can’t find a comfortable way of being in it. Their parent was sometimes there for them and sometimes not, and this left a mark on them that affects how they behave as adults.</p>		\n			<h3>3. Dismissing adult attachment: fortress style</h3>		\n		<p>Partners with this attachment style are often dragged into couples therapy by their partner. They don\'t like talking about their feelings, as they\'re just not used to doing so. Characteristics of the adult fortress attachment style include -</p>		\n					<ul>\n							<li>\n										Communicates in an intellectual and controlled manner\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Is distant emotionally and rejects others’ emotions\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Invests little emotion in social or romantic relationships\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Shows a narrow or limited emotional range\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Is unable or unwilling to share thoughts and feelings with others\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Is unable to depend on others or unable to allow their partner to depend on them\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Prefers independence and autonomy over depending on others\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Shows a calm exterior, typically hiding their anxiety\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Uses distraction from feelings, such as work or exercise\n									</li>\n						</ul>\n			<h3>4. Unresolved/disorganised adult attachment: no strategy style</h3>		\n		<p>Typical behaviours of the unresolved/disorganised adult attachment style include -</p>		\n					<ul>\n							<li>\n										Has traumatic memories, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or dissociation\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Struggles with mood and anxiety – depression, overwhelm, a sense of disconnection, a fear of abandonment, helplessness, rage, feeling trapped or irritable\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Relies on substances (drugs and/or alcohol)\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Is unable to understand their own feelings or recognise the mental states of others (including their partner)\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Lacks trust, empathy and remorse for others\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Shows chaotic or unpredictable emotional states\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Is unable to tolerate intimacy in a relationship\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										May be narcissistic or appear to be narcissistic\n									</li>\n						</ul>\n			<h3>The good news</h3>		\n		<p>The good news for all of us is that these attachment styles aren’t fixed for life. The concept of earned secure attachment applies to people who have made sense of and created meaning from past experiences with their parents that led to insecure attachment.</p><p>With earned secure attachment, we accept these past experiences and escape the hold they have over our lives. This enables us to relate to our partner in a healthier way and remove the soul-destroying episodes of conflict from our relationship. It is an important component for decreasing couple conflict.</p><p><a href=\"https://www.booktopia.com.au/relationship-reset-lissy-abrahams/book/9781760989781.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Relationship Reset</em></a> is published by <a href=\"https://www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781760989781/relationship-reset/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pan Macmillan Australia</a> and is available now from Booktopia, Book Depository, Amazon and all the other online bookstores. </p><p><em>For more from Lissy Abrahams, you can follow her on </em><a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lissy.abrahams/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Instagram</em></a><em>.</em></p><p><em>Feature image: Getty</em></p>','What to know about your \'relational template\' and how it affects the way you treat your partner.',' Relationships can be TOUGH. And while things like cheating and trust issues are some very obvious red...','inherit','closed','closed','','5362-revision-v1','','','2022-09-28 10:04:39','2022-09-28 10:04:39','',5362,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?p=5369',0,'revision','',0),(5370,3,'2022-09-28 10:04:39','2022-09-28 10:04:39','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Mamam!a            \n        </h1>\n            Article - source: Mamamia        \n            <h2>\n                What to know about your \'relational template\' and how it affects the way you treat your partner.            \n        </h2>\n            14 August 2022        \n		<p>How we respond and react to our partner in our committed adult relationships is predominantly related to our childhood experiences with our parents or primary caregivers. </p><p>These early influences on our lives create an imprint of relationships, which we may or may not be aware of. </p><p>This imprint is like a relational template, which shapes our ideas and expectations of relationships and of how we and our partner should communicate and behave in our relationship.</p><p>Our mind and body are wired to relate to our partner according to this relational template.</p><h3><strong>Relational templates in couple relationships</strong></h3><p> </p><p>In any relationship, we’ll share some beliefs with our partner about how relationships should work, but we never have the same relational templates. That’s because we have lived in different homes, had different families and had completely different experiences.</p><p>It’s important for us to remember this, as we often create a fantasy that we should have similar views, expectations and behaviours in relationships. Even though it would be convenient if this were the case, this simply can’t occur, as we’re two very different beings and our life experiences have left us with different relational imprints.</p><p>Below are just a few examples of life experiences that would differ from our partner’s experiences, creating differing parental responses and contributing to our different relational templates:</p>		\n			<link rel=\"stylesheet\" href=\"https://www.lissyabrahams.com/wp-content/plugins/elementor/assets/css/widget-icon-list.min.css\">		<ul>\n							<li>\n										Parents’ expectations or rules\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Parents’ capacity to emotionally see us as a child\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Sense of parental protectiveness and safety\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Parents’ own relationship: conflict, capacity for repair, their ability to apologise, gestures of love\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Parents’ separation or divorce\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Parental experiences with extended families\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Family trauma such as early parental death or illness, poverty, a sudden loss of money, or being a migrant\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Own separation or divorce\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Relationships with siblings and birth order\n									</li>\n						</ul>\n		<p>We can see how these experiences shape our mind, our relational wiring, how we absorb and process information and experiences, and how we feel about them. </p><p>These life experiences shape our ability to tolerate different viewpoints, and influence whether we listen well to our partner or find it difficult. They also influence what we react to and how, and what sets us off into fight-or-flight mode.</p><p>We all grow up in environments that are uniquely ours. Therefore, in our relationship we’ll always encounter differences that we’ll need to work through together. We all have different triggers and behave differently in fight-or-flight mode. </p><p>We all have different thoughts about conflict: who was right or wrong? Who was to blame? Who started it? And we all have a different understanding of why we fight with our partner. All these beliefs and behaviours define our default expectations, rules for safety and non-negotiables in our relationship.</p><p>Our relational template will determine how we react to our partner when our expectations of each other and our relationship differ. Sometimes we can talk through differences; other times we can’t. Sometimes we can feel frightened by our partner’s actions, words or behaviour. </p><p>Our relational templates are different, and the gap between them can be perceived as a threat.</p><p>Understanding our relational templates is critical if we want or need to reduce conflict and form a healthier relationship with our partner.</p><h3><strong>Why it\'s important to understand your relational template</strong></h3><p>We all need to examine how our childhood experiences persist inside of us today, and how this impacts our relationship. Only when we make these connections, can we change the dynamic of our couple conflict. We, as individuals, can make our relationship better.</p><p>In the first one or two sessions with a new client or couple, I always seek some access to their relational template and wiring. I simply ask them about their relationship with their parents and what their parents’ relationship was like growing up. </p><p>By understanding how we’re relationally wired, we can learn how to avoid getting into the emotional boxing ring, and if we do happen to find ourselves there, we can exit faster with fewer body blows. When we understand this, we can then understand why we really fight with our partner. This is a game changer.</p><p>To do this, we’ll look at our experiences with parents or caregivers where we felt secure and protected, as well as experiences where we felt less safe or less protected. This will offer clues about our relational wiring and help us understand why and how we fight with our partner. This exercise isn’t about blaming or shaming anyone.</p><p>It’s not about accusing our parents or judging them for how we were raised. This is about objectively considering what happened in the past to understand how our relational wiring impacts our adult relationship today.</p><p>I’d love for everyone to see how normal it is to have couple conflict. The truth is that couple relationships are often messy and complicated. </p><p>During the dizzy joy of the honeymoon period, we often have no idea that we can end up locked in confusing and exhausting cycles of conflict. We have no idea that at the heart of these episodes is fear and a lack of safety. </p><p>But this is not new – this is from our childhood and was encoded way back then.</p><h3><strong>Safety and trust develop in childhood</strong></h3><p>We’re not born feeling safe. In fact, it’s the opposite. Just think of a newborn baby with no ability to dress itself, feed itself or even soothe itself. From the moment they’re born, they’re completely dependent on their parents for their survival. This enormous dependency means danger and threat is never far away. When we hear a hungry baby crying, it pulls at our heartstrings because their distress is so evident. They can’t go to the fridge and grab a snack.</p><p>They’re literally screaming for their lives, and their nervous system is registering danger and threat.</p><p>As a baby, our sense of safety develops when we’re with parents who protect, feed, soothe and nurture us. We learn to feel safe knowing our parents are with us, attending to things we simply can’t do yet.</p><p>As children, it is written deeply into our mammalian core that it’s our parents’ job to keep us safe. That’s why children instinctively seek their parents when they’re hurt or afraid. </p><p>When our parents protect us, meet our basic needs, comfort us and are available to us, we learn we can really trust them. These experiences calm our nervous system, and we feel safe.</p><p>When parents take care of our physical and emotional safety, we can have some scrapes, be soothed by them, recover and re-establish our feelings of being protected. </p><p>We will still experience fear and danger, but we know our parent will comfort us. When these experiences are repeated during our childhood, we learn to tolerate upsetting and distressing experiences. This is how we become more resilient, and all of these moments of comfort and soothing are encoded in our relational wiring.</p><p>It’s important to note that no parent can offer perfect protection and safety; we have all had some experiences where our parents were not physically or emotionally able to help us feel secure.</p><p>Parents are also human, and they can be out of line at times, or maybe even a little frightening. There will always be ruptures or difficulties in parent–child relationships, but what’s critical is how they’re repaired.</p><p>When our parent repeatedly sees that we’re slightly frightened or are feeling an absence of protection from them and they’re apologetic, this becomes an established pattern that we learn to rely on.</p><p>As they repeatedly re-establish trust with us, we’re more likely to develop distress tolerance, which we carry through to our adult relationships. This is how our relational wiring around safety and trust develops – through our parent–child relationships.</p><h3><strong>The theory of relational wiring</strong></h3><p>The importance of security and safety in childhood has been extensively studied across the world through a body of research and clinical work called attachment theory, and it forms the basis of our relational wiring. </p><p>This work, started by John Bowlby, examines the types of emotional bonds children form with their parents or primary caregivers. He described attachment as a special emotional relationship that involves an exchange of comfort, care and pleasure.</p><p>It’s easy to understand how a baby would see their parent or primary caregiver as an attachment figure. As babies, we normally don’t have many primary attachment figures – sometimes just one – with whom we share that exchange. </p><p>We’ve already talked about how vulnerable and dependent a baby truly is, so having an attachment figure who is focused on them increases their chance of survival.</p><p>Researchers were interested in the distress behaviours babies revealed when they were left alone by their parent (attachment figure) and were suddenly feeling vulnerable and unsafe. Any parent whose baby cries when they go to the toilet will know exactly how this feels. </p><p>What’s important to take away from this is that loss or the threat of loss is central to psychological distress.</p><h3><strong>Research: The Adult Attachment Interview</strong></h3><p>The Adult Attachment Interview was a protocol developed in 1985 using a semi-structured interview with participants to determine their mental representations of their childhood attachment experiences. The aim is to get a sense of their relational template.</p><p>It’s a complex interview, and requires training to conduct. In a nutshell, it focuses on two key areas:</p><p>1. Eliciting the subject’s memories and their relationship with their parent(s) in childhood, including how they coped.</p><p>2. The extent to which they evaluated or integrated those experiences as an adult today, and their current relationships with their parent(s).</p><p>The subjects were also assessed for the coherence of their narrative. This was done by assessing how truthful and consistent they were, whether there was too little or too much information provided, how relevant the material was, and finally whether they were clear in the interview.</p><p>This research was groundbreaking. It found that our adult attachment styles map onto our infant attachment styles. They weren’t always an exact fit, but there was typically a style that fitted more than others.</p><p>The names of the categories in childhood and adulthood are essentially the same, or very similar. Let me show you how.</p><p>If a child was securely attached, then as an adult they were likely to be securely attached. They became resilient adults.</p><p>If a child was insecurely attached then they were as an adult, too. There were three similar styles that corresponded to these.</p><p>1. An ambivalently attached child became a preoccupied adult – think of the clingy/angry style.</p><p>2. An avoidantly attached child created a fortress and continued to do so as an adult with a dismissing attachment style.</p><p>Essentially, what this reveals is that our minds were relationally wired by twelve to eighteen months of age, and this becomes our relational template in adulthood. This template carries our expectations and beliefs about relationships, how we believe we should or shouldn’t treat or be treated by our partner, and our capacity to tolerate distress, or not.</p><p>We have no idea that our attachment style plays out in our adult behaviour and relationships. We just think ‘this is me,’ and that dictates what we believe and how we behave. We don’t question why we behave in a sulky or childlike manner, nor do we see a problem with our blaming, critical or aloof behaviour. It’s just who we are, right? Well, no – it’s how we’ve always behaved according to our relational wiring, but it’s not who we are.</p><p>We all know someone who makes the same ‘mistakes’ in relationships, leaving friends scratching their heads, wondering when they’ll learn their lesson. We can even be that person! The reason we repeat relationship ‘mistakes’ is due to our relational template. </p><p>Let’s look at the adult attachment styles in more detail.</p>		\n			<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}</style><h3>1. Secure adult attachment: resilient style</h3>		\n		<p>Adults with a secure attachment style -</p>		\n					<ul>\n							<li>\n										Are independent and self-reliant\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Are confident\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Have trusting, close and enduring relationships in life\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Can speak about their own emotions\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Are aware of other people’s needs and emotions\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Can rely on others when needed\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Developed distress tolerance\n									</li>\n						</ul>\n			<h3>2. Insecure adult attachment. Preoccupied adult attachment: clingy/angry style</h3>		\n		<p>Adults with a clingy/angry attachment style -</p>		\n					<ul>\n							<li>\n										Are needy, requiring ongoing reassurance from their partner, fearing rejection or abandonment worry/are anxious that their partner doesn’t love them.\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Have trouble trusting others\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Lack impulse control, can be angry, unpredictable or moody\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Connect through conflict\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Blame others, not acknowledging their own responsibility\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Are overly sensitive to their partner’s emotional and physical whereabouts\n									</li>\n						</ul>\n		<p>These adults become preoccupied with the relationship; they can’t find a comfortable way of being in it. Their parent was sometimes there for them and sometimes not, and this left a mark on them that affects how they behave as adults.</p>		\n			<h3>3. Dismissing adult attachment: fortress style</h3>		\n		<p>Partners with this attachment style are often dragged into couples therapy by their partner. They don\'t like talking about their feelings, as they\'re just not used to doing so. Characteristics of the adult fortress attachment style include -</p>		\n					<ul>\n							<li>\n										Communicates in an intellectual and controlled manner\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Is distant emotionally and rejects others’ emotions\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Invests little emotion in social or romantic relationships\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Shows a narrow or limited emotional range\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Is unable or unwilling to share thoughts and feelings with others\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Is unable to depend on others or unable to allow their partner to depend on them\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Prefers independence and autonomy over depending on others\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Shows a calm exterior, typically hiding their anxiety\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Uses distraction from feelings, such as work or exercise\n									</li>\n						</ul>\n			<h3>4. Unresolved/disorganised adult attachment: no strategy style</h3>		\n		<p>Typical behaviours of the unresolved/disorganised adult attachment style include -</p>		\n					<ul>\n							<li>\n										Has traumatic memories, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or dissociation\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Struggles with mood and anxiety – depression, overwhelm, a sense of disconnection, a fear of abandonment, helplessness, rage, feeling trapped or irritable\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Relies on substances (drugs and/or alcohol)\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Is unable to understand their own feelings or recognise the mental states of others (including their partner)\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Lacks trust, empathy and remorse for others\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Shows chaotic or unpredictable emotional states\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										Is unable to tolerate intimacy in a relationship\n									</li>\n								<li>\n										May be narcissistic or appear to be narcissistic\n									</li>\n						</ul>\n			<h3>The good news</h3>		\n		<p>The good news for all of us is that these attachment styles aren’t fixed for life. The concept of earned secure attachment applies to people who have made sense of and created meaning from past experiences with their parents that led to insecure attachment.</p><p>With earned secure attachment, we accept these past experiences and escape the hold they have over our lives. This enables us to relate to our partner in a healthier way and remove the soul-destroying episodes of conflict from our relationship. It is an important component for decreasing couple conflict.</p><p><a href=\"https://www.booktopia.com.au/relationship-reset-lissy-abrahams/book/9781760989781.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Relationship Reset</em></a> is published by <a href=\"https://www.panmacmillan.com.au/9781760989781/relationship-reset/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pan Macmillan Australia</a> and is available now from Booktopia, Book Depository, Amazon and all the other online bookstores. </p><p><em>For more from Lissy Abrahams, you can follow her on </em><a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lissy.abrahams/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Instagram</em></a><em>.</em></p><p><em>Feature image: Getty</em></p>','What to know about your \'relational template\' and how it affects the way you treat your partner.',' Relationships can be TOUGH. 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10:20:45','',4757,'http://www.lissyabrahams.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Stop-Couple-Conflict.png',0,'attachment','image/png',0),(5379,3,'2022-09-04 10:21:40','2022-09-04 10:21:40','<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-column .elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--spacer-size)}.e-container{--container-widget-width:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer{width:var(--container-widget-width,var(--spacer-size));-ms-flex-item-align:stretch;align-self:stretch;-ms-flex-negative:0;flex-shrink:0}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container,.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer{height:100%}.e-container>.elementor-widget-spacer>.elementor-widget-container>.elementor-spacer>.elementor-spacer-inner{height:var(--container-widget-height,var(--spacer-size))}</style>		\n            <h1>\n                Mamam!a            \n        </h1>\n            Article - source: Mamamia        \n            <h2>\n                There are 3 ways to stop the \'conflict cycle\'            \n        </h2>\n            4 September 2022        \n		<p>When there are ongoing cycles of conflict in our couple relationship, we often unconsciously take our partner’s comments, behaviour, opinion, tone of voice or facial expression as a threat. In that moment, we’re triggered into fight- or-flight and our mind and body react to our partner as if they were a hungry bear chasing us. </p><p>The threat feels very real, and we react accordingly. We fight or run for our lives. The tragedy is that couples can do this for years, or even decades. </p><p>Remember, it typically takes around six years of conflict before a couple will contact a therapist for help. Conflict is incredibly distressing for both partners. It’s easy to see the distress on the fighters: they shout, blame, degrade, regress, make their bodies bigger or voices louder in anger. </p><p>Those who flee the conflict are also extremely distressed, even if they don’t look it. Remember, they have the same cascading survival reaction that compels them to run away as the fighters have to attack. Both experience a surge in their adrenaline and cortisol levels, and their heart rate and blood pressure increase.</p><p>Prolonged couple conflict causes suffering for both partners. It’s gruelling, both physically and mentally, and it takes time and energy to recover from each exhausting episode. Very few of us bounce back after a fight without any lingering impact. </p><p>The residue of conflict impacts our <a href=\"https://www.mamamia.com.au/signs-of-a-healthy-relationship/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">relationship</a> and creates the perfect climate for the ego to tell elaborate stories of our partner’s inadequacy. It’s vastly different from the way we saw each other at the start of the relationship. </p><p>I see many couples where both partners feel vulnerable and powerless within their relationship. Their dynamic has changed. They both feel victim-like and see their partner as powerful, and even persecutory. When they come to me for therapy, typically they’ve both been using their go-to ego defence mechanisms and telling themselves ego-based stories for years. </p><p>These behaviours and narratives are entrenched in their relationship, so both partners have plenty of ‘evidence’ to back up their ego’s version of the ‘truth’. Often, they disregard any information that conflicts with their version. </p><p>Many of the partners engaged in cycles of conflict didn’t develop distress tolerance in their relationships with their parents when they were children. It’s not their fault. And it’s not your fault. It’s not your parents’ fault, either, or even their parents’ fault – they didn’t develop distress tolerance either.</p><p>We know our ability or inability to tolerate distress is handed down from parent to child. You know already that securely attached people have a higher threshold for handling distress than those who are insecurely attached.</p><p>It’s a different experience for the insecurely attached. Their threshold is lower, and arousal is higher, which means more distress to deal with, more ego-based stories and defence mechanisms. </p><p>Those who were faced with the biological paradox will have an even lower threshold for distress tolerance, and they live with chronic arousal, perceiving many more threats in everyday life, and certainly in their relationship. </p><h3><strong>Why judgement is problematic</strong></h3><p> </p><p>What’s important here is that we don’t judge ourselves, our partner, or anyone, for being insecurely attached and not developing distress tolerance. It’s easy to want to judge our partner for their inadequacies or blame our parents for our insecure attachment. </p><p>Using judgement may allow us a little ego boost. However, it’s not healthy for us – and it’s using the ego defence mechanism projection. It’s fine to acknowledge that it’s a shame, or that life would have been simpler if we were securely attached, but judgement is problematic. It implies that we’re not like the person we’re judging (so we’re ‘good’), and therefore are better than them (as they’re ‘bad’). </p><p>Do you recognise this? Whenever we use the extremes of good and bad, we’re using the defence mechanism called splitting. It means we’ve separated the person into the black and white binary and removed all grey zones. </p><p>So, what’s in the grey zone? Well, everything that’s about all of us being complex, real and multifaceted human beings. The grey zone contains an understanding of our partner’s journey, their <a href=\"https://www.mamamia.com.au/adult-attachment-styles/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">relational templates</a> and childhood experiences, our journey, our need or safety and what our ego and physiology do when we perceive danger. </p><p>We’re no more ‘good’ than they are ‘bad’. We all need to understand that there are no angels or devils in this life. My clients often want to make me out as ‘good’, as if my life is perfect and that I never struggle with tough times. I always tell my clients that there are no halos in my consulting room – not on their heads and certainly not on mine. </p><p>Just like all of us mortals, I behave according to my <a href=\"https://www.mamamia.com.au/avoidant-attachment-style-relationships/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">attachment style </a>and can hit my limit of distress tolerance. I work within myself to increase my threshold of what I can tolerate. </p><p>We’re all in the human experience together. When we judge someone, we believe they should know better and behave better. We can also judge our own behaviour harshly, whether it’s with our partner or with others. We can be so fearful of being seen as inadequate and deemed unacceptable in our community. </p><p>Remember, abandonment is primitively wired within us as being akin to death – a lone human didn’t live for long in the wild. Today, there’s a major problem socially and via the media, as we judge all adults through the lens of a securely attached template. It’s a bit rich, isn’t it, given that only 60 per cent of us are actually securely attached. We don’t mind being completely inconsistent within ourselves as we delight in judging a monumental celebrity downfall. </p><p>We love to gossip about it and judge that celebrity accordingly. We even sound holier than thou and feel rather unblemished as we speak. We see the celebrity splashed across the internet, hiding their ashamed faces on the evening news and in magazines. We love seeing how terrified, unworthy and below us they are now. We devour this stuff because it makes us feel better about our own lives.</p><p>We do this to our partner in our relationship, too. We judge them harshly for what they don’t know exists inside them. </p><p>When we hit our own threshold of distress tolerance, we often make excuses for our cruel or out-of-control behaviour. We may have called our partner ‘weak’ or ‘pathetic’ or yelled at them to ‘shut up!’, with expletives added for emphasis to frighten them just a little more. Or maybe we punished them with the silent treatment for days. </p>		\n			<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}</style>												<img width=\"640\" height=\"450\" src=\"https://www.lissyabrahams.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Couple-Conflict.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https://www.lissyabrahams.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Couple-Conflict.png 654w, https://www.lissyabrahams.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Couple-Conflict-300x211.png 300w, https://www.lissyabrahams.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Couple-Conflict-600x422.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" />															\n		<p>One of the best things we can do in our relationship is to stop our judgement and develop empathy for both of our individual struggles and how they interact in our relationship. </p><p>We’re all humans, influenced by our primitive biology and relational wiring. We all can feel sadness, anxiety, irritation, shame, humiliation, guilt, pain and frustration. We’d be robots if we didn’t. The difference lies in our ability to manage these feelings.</p><p>The first step we can take is to attend to our own home. It’s your turn to explore your own threshold of distress tolerance, to understand why and how you fight with your partner. You’re not responsible for the attachment style you developed, nor for what triggers you into flight-or-fight with your partner. You’re not even responsible for the ego-based stories you’ve been constructing in your mind for decades. </p><p>However, now that you know about attachment styles, distress intolerance, triggers, ego-based stories and defence mechanisms, it’s your responsibility to liberate your relationship from the suffering caused by these things. And it’s not just the suffering to your relationship. </p><p>We take ourselves everywhere, and when we take responsibility and liberate ourselves from the impact of the past, we liberate our partner, any children, friends, family and colleagues at work. Developing distress tolerance is how you stop the cycles of conflict with your partner. </p><p>The more you do this, the more peace you’ll both feel. This creates the space to make happy memories together. I see this with my clients all the time. They do the work and the dark grey cloud that hovered over them disappears. </p><h3><strong>How do we develop distress tolerance?</strong></h3><p>We can’t separate mind and body as they influence each other constantly. We are one organism. This means we need both mind and body solutions for developing distress tolerance. </p><p>I believe there are two main categories of coping strategies that are critical for developing distress tolerance. They allow you to reduce your reactivity to triggers through understanding how your triggers link to that whiff of familiarity from the past. </p><p>This awareness will help you calm down and then you’ll recover more quickly. For couples, this decreases the damage of the conflict. These categories are connected and overlap in practice, but I’ll present them separately so you can see how they work. They are - </p><p>1. Bio-hacks for calming ourselves down. </p><p>2. Developing earned secure attachment. </p>		\n			<style>/*! elementor - v3.7.7 - 20-09-2022 */\n.elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-large{font-size:29px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xl{font-size:39px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-xxl{font-size:59px}</style><h3>Bio-hacks for calming ourselves down</h3>		\n		<p>Bio-hacks are strategic interventions that you can apply yourself to improve your health, wellbeing or performance. You can use these to calm down whenever you want or need to. You already know that your limbic system is your brain’s emotional centre.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>When your amygdalae determine you are under threat, your body releases the stress hormones adrenaline and cortisol, which increase your heart rate and blood pressure. These changes prepare your body for fight-or-flight, and your thinking brain takes a back seat.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Sometimes the left hemisphere goes offline, as in the case of adults with childhood trauma. To develop distress tolerance, you need to learn to get yourself out of fight-or-flight mode, to calm your whole system. Then you can get on with your life and think creatively about your next steps.&nbsp;</p>\n<h4><strong>Stop the conflict and take time out</strong></h4>\n<p>The first thing you need to do is to stop the episode of conflict. You need to take time out from the fight with your partner, even if that means physically moving away from them and into a safe space. You can’t calm yourself down if your fight-or-flight response is still being stimulated, as the hormones will keep surging through your body.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>So, we need to take the time to calm down before returning to each other. Think about how long you need. Is it fifteen minutes or is it hours? Take the time to ensure you don’t keep re-triggering each other. When you reunite, you need to have a mindset that’s open to resolving the conflict in a respectful way. You may even simply let it go and move on.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Once you’ve taken time out, you can use some simple hacks to calm down. These help you join your mind and body together to focus on your here and now. When you’re triggered, you’ve confused what’s past and present. We all only have now: our past is over, and our future is not yet written.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>There are many ways to calm down, and I’m going to share my top three go-to tools. These tools have been scientifically tested, and even medical experts recommend their effectiveness. The more often I use these, the higher my threshold for tolerating distress becomes. Most of my clients find them life changing. They can be done anytime and anywhere. Just make sure you keep your eyes open during the breathing exercise when driving!&nbsp;</p>\n<p>My top three bio-hacks are:&nbsp;</p>\n<p>1. Breathing exercise to stimulate the vagus nerve.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>2. Mindfulness.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>3. Riding the 90-second wave.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>These bio-hacks return us to the present. And the only fact we really have (as opposed to the fake news created by our ego) is that our physical sensations are actually happening in the present. By focusing on being present and calming down, we can learn to tolerate distress within ourselves.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>This means we’re not needing our external world to be our crutch. We’re not distracting ourselves by reading, watching TV, tidying the office drawers or rearranging the kitchen cupboards. Distraction is being used as a defence mechanism.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>What we often try to do is use the external world to help tidy up our distressed internal world. We unconsciously believe we’ll get our mind in order if we can just achieve order in the kitchen. (And of course, it’s nice to have a compelling reason to tidy the kitchen cupboards). But distraction won’t help increase distress tolerance, and developing distress tolerance is critical for decreasing the cycles of conflict in our relationship.&nbsp;</p>\n<h4><strong>1. Breathing exercise to stimulate the vagus nerve.&nbsp;</strong></h4><strong><br></strong>\n<p>At a biological level, breathing is the most powerful way we can regulate our fight-or-flight response. This works because of our vagus nerve and its incredibly calming capacity. The vagus nerve is the tenth cranial nerve, and it extends from our brainstem down through the neck and thorax to our abdomen.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Think of it as a two-way street that carries a massive range of messages from our digestive system and organs to the brain, and back again. When we stimulate the vagus nerve, we send a message to our body saying it’s time to relax and de-stress. You do this simply by taking a slow, deep, deliberate breath in through your nose and down to your stomach. Then, you exhale slowly. These deep breaths activate neurons that detect blood pressure. The neurons also signal to the vagus nerve that your blood pressure is too high, so it lowers your heart rate, which helps you calm down.</p>\n<h4><strong>2. Mindfulness.</strong></h4><strong><br></strong>\n<p>You will now be aware that you compound your own stress and distress by creating ego-based stories that evoke sadness, anxiety or fear. And you know that your ego is just a part of your mind, continuously concerned with your identity from moment to moment. Mindfulness is a great tool to help us calm down when our ego’s stories take off, tell fake news or lack coherence. We’ve seen what happens to us physically and mentally when we let the stories rule the roost. Mindfulness takes our attention away from our left hemisphere, allowing us to drop the stories and redirect our mind to ourselves as an entire living and breathing organism.</p>\n<h4><strong>3. Riding the 90-second wave.</strong></h4><h4><strong>&nbsp;</strong></h4>\n<p>For this approach, we can think of our body’s experience during fight-or-flight as a wave in the ocean with a beginning and an end.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Following her stroke, Jill Bolte Taylor discovered that the physical sensations of fight-or-flight (such as surging adrenaline, racing heart rate, increasing blood pressure) reach a peak and then dissipate by themselves in 90 seconds. This means the physiological experience of emotions such as anger, frustration, sadness or distress takes only 90 seconds to ride through our body.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>So, why all this talk of distress intolerance if we only need to cope for 90 seconds? Bolte Taylor explains that our thoughts continue to re-stimulate our nervous system, which causes the fight-or-flight reaction to occur again and again.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>Think of it like this: we don’t normally just see one wave hit the beach. They keep rolling in, one after the other, in a continuous cycle. Similarly, our ego-based stories keep reactivating the physiological waves, keeping us in fight or flight until we stop the stories or become exhausted.</p>\n<p>This is why it’s critical you become aware of the stories you tell yourself. These stories repeatedly hurt you and your relationship. Remember, the stories don’t just stay in your mind. If you believe you are stupid or hard done by or not good enough, then you’ll treat yourself accordingly. If you believe your partner is disappointing, selfish or cruel, you’ll treat them&nbsp;as such. Where your mind goes, your behaviour often follows, and this has consequences for your relationship.</p>\n<p>These hacks are simple. The more frequently you use these strategies, the more you’ll want to keep using them to alleviate your distress, anxiety and sadness. You’ll no longer be held hostage or feel helpless in the face of your emotional state.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>The beauty of these hacks is that you can take them with you wherever you go. Over time, you’ll become more resilient and increase your threshold for tolerating distress.</p>\n<p><em>This is an extract from&nbsp;</em><a href=\"https://www.booktopia.com.au/relationship-reset-lissy-abrahams/book/9781760989781.html?irclickid=Tumwb6xpQxyNUNV0vi2cWRoIUkDRHoTV5V-CQw0&amp;utm_campaign=Skimbit%20Ltd.&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_source=Impact&amp;bk_source=10078&amp;bk_source_id=10078&amp;irgwc=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Relationship Reset</em></a>, published by Pan Macmillan Australia, available now from&nbsp;<a href=\"https://www.booktopia.com.au/relationship-reset-lissy-abrahams/book/9781760989781.html?irclickid=Tumwb6xpQxyNUNV0vi2cWRoIUkDRHoTV5V-CQw0&amp;utm_campaign=Skimbit%20Ltd.&amp;utm_medium=affiliate&amp;utm_source=Impact&amp;bk_source=10078&amp;bk_source_id=10078&amp;irgwc=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Booktopia</a>, Book Depository, Amazon and all the other online bookstores.&nbsp;</p>\n<p>For more from Lissy Abrahams, you can follow her on<a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lissy.abrahams/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&nbsp;Instagram</a>.</p>\n<p><em>Have you practiced any of these hacks before? How did you go? Share with us in the comment section below.</em></p>\n<p><em>Feature image: Getty.</em></p>','There are 3 ways to stop the \'conflict cycle\'',' Relationships can be TOUGH. And while things like cheating and trust issues are some very obvious red...','publish','closed','closed','','3-ways-to-stop-the-conflict-cycle','','','2022-10-17 02:15:54','2022-10-17 02:15:54','',0,'https://www.lissyabrahams.com/?post_type=case-study&#038;p=5379',0,'case-study','',0),