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Before Differences Become Disagreements And Annoyances Turn Into Anger

Before Differences Become Disagreements And Annoyances Turn Into Anger Partnership & Love

Before Differences Become Disagreements And Annoyances Turn Into Anger

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Forty years of research into human behavior have made it quite clear that those who achieve the highest levels of success and happiness in life do so not only by managing to avoid the three most common mistakes which people make in relating to one another (described below) but also by developing the little-known skills needed to build life-long, deeply-rewarding relationships with their spouse and children, as well as mutually satisfying relationships with their neighbors, co-workers and whoever else is among the most important persons in their lives.

Relationships are gradually destroyed when individuals get involved in more-and-more frequent and ever-more devastating arguments. The most frequent reason for such occurrences is that one party finds fault with the other and verbalizes it in the form of criticism, blame or complaint. A second contributing factor is that the target of the fault-finding almost always becomes defensive --- he or she offers an explanation, a justification, or an excuse for the offending behavior. The third component, and often the driving force behind the conflagration, is the belief on the part of each person that he or she is "right" and the other person is "wrong".

The lack of self understanding and self control implicit in such attitudes and behaviors can itself be traced back to the fact that they were never taught more appropriate responses during their growing-up period. Without even trying, they learned poor habits of communication from their parents who had in turn inherited them from their own parents.

The solution lies in their learning to become much more alert to their inner feelings (especially those of annoyance and anger), to learn how to exert control over them, and to learn what they should do differently in order to reduce or eliminate interpersonal problems. This book provides that learning...
Product details
Number of Pages:
340
Release Date:
2004-10-30
Publication Date:
2004-10-30
Publisher:
Trafford Publishing
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
1412034957
Weight:
745 g
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