Adult Relationship Skills: Build Trust and Deepen Connection with Your Partner

What does it mean to be an adult in a relationship? How can you stop unproductive patterns and adopt ways of relating that bring you closer together?

If you want to be an accountant, you learn the profession in school. If you want to get better at a sport, you work with a coach. If you want to be in a relationship, you… well, you’re supposed to just jump in and give it your best shot.

Most of us never learned what it means to be an adult in a relationship. We brought our conditioned ways of interacting into a partnership only to find our automated responses aren’t effective in building intimacy. To be successful in building trust and connection, you’ll have to learn new skills. By using these new relationship skills, you’ll outgrow your old, ineffective patterns.

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