[MENTAL HEALTH]USING COMMUNICATION SKILLS TO IMPROVE YOUR RELATIONSHIP (ARTICLE 1, 2)

Article 1

The quality of your relationship with your partner sets the tone for your day-to-day experience at home. If your relationship is distressed , your home is likely to feel negative, and that can be depressing . If you both feel loved and supported by each other, your overall life experience is likely to be more positive and it will be easier to use your relationship as a resource in combating depression.

Therefore, let’s focus first on some general priciples of what you and your partner can do to improve and enhance the quality of the way things are between you.

The quality of your relationship is influenced by a large number of factors .

First, in order for a relationship to work, it needs to meet many of the important needs that each of you has as individuals.

For example, you might want a lot of emotional closeness…