by Peter Fox | 21 Apr, 2020 | Communication, Couple research, Relationships
Build Rapport from a management perspective Here are 5 basic communication lessons that can drastically impact your relationships. 1. Don’t Use That Tone With Me, Sir. It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it. We all know this. Whether you agree...
by Peter Fox | 21 Feb, 2020 | Communication, Couple research, Relationships
Strategies for Ending Arguments Gottmans’ research indicates that relationship success is not dependent on whether couples argue or not. It’s how they argue, and how they repair (see my series on repair). Conflicts are unavoidable in any intimate relationship and they...
by Peter Fox | 1 Dec, 2019 | Communication, Couple research, Mending, Relationships
Couple communication strategies need to be practiced over and over again until they become habitual. Reading about communication skills is meaningless until they are put into action frequently and at every opportunity, face to face, email, text, video chat, phone...
by Peter Fox | 8 Jun, 2017 | Communication, Connection, Relationships
Steps to rebuilding trust may be the same as starting a new relationship. Even in long term committed relationships, partners can become strangers to each other. More so when there has been a breach of trust. It can be awkward to start again. What should you say? How...
by Peter Fox | 6 Apr, 2017 | Communication, Compassion, Couple research, Relationships, Therapy
The number one myth about relationships is that talking helps. More often than not it makes things worse. When couples feel connected, men want to talk more and women need to talk less. According to Stosny’s analysis of several hundred human and animal studies,...
by Peter Fox | 1 Dec, 2016 | Communication, Connection, Ending, Intimacy
This is the beginning of an article from a series The Guardian is running on the experience of a fragmenting relationship that leads to divorce. “I have many moments that come to mind if I try to pinpoint when, exactly, it was obvious that my marriage was over....