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Flirting is any communicative behavior, verbal or nonverbal, that an individual enacts towards another individual usually either with the intent to communicate liking or interest or with the more simple goal of amusement or having fun. In fact, Dr. David Henningsen and his colleagues discovered that men and women tend to have different motivations for flirting; oftentimes causing miscommunication and even conflict between the sexes. 💞 SWIPE to listen to a short clip of my lecture video about flirting and then click the LINK IN MY BIO to head over to my YouTube channel to watch the full video. 💞 #RLHProjectMeme #Flirting #HowToFlirt #Communication #Flirting101 #HowTo #CommunicationSkills #Dating #Relationships #Marriage #EffectiveCommunication #ResearchBasedAdvice #Research #Henningsen #DavidHenningsen 💞 Feel free to SHARE this post, but remember to TAG @RelationshipsLoveHappiness when you do 💞
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IT’S FAQ TIME! 😎 Here’s a question I get asked a lot: Isn’t attachment just a style of parenting? How can I know that this is the “right” way to parent my child? Isn’t it really just “to each their own”? 😎 And here’s MY ANSWER: When you have a baby, you get inundated with tons of advice (usually unsolicited) from friends, family members, and even strangers. People want to tell you how to parent your baby based on their own experiences or what they've heard from others. It can get overwhelming trying to deal with all of this information. I want to be very clear here when I say that attachment theory is NOT A PARENTING STYLE. Deciding whether to co-sleep with your child, if you’re going to baby wear, how long you're going to breastfeed your baby, or if you're going to use playpen to contain your baby are all parenting styles and techniques. As a parent, you can decide if you want to do those things based on your values, opinions, time, and energy. Attachment theory is NOT a parenting style; it’s about child development. Articles about parenting styles are persuasive. Articles about attachment are informative. When I talk about attachment, I'm not trying to persuade you to believe that this is the right way to interact with children. Instead, I'm informing you that when you interact with children in certain ways, this is what happens. Researchers have spent decades examining how the brain is impacted by early childhood interactions. While there are criticisms of attachment research, as there are with all kinds of scientific inquiry, scholars rarely contest the plausibility of the theory's main assumption: when you respond in a sensitive, caring, consistent ways to your child's distress and bids for affection, secure attachments develop, which help them build relationships with others more easily for the rest of their lives. 🥰 #Attachment #Parenting #FAQs #QandA #ChildDevelopment #Parenting101 #RLHProjectMeme #AttachmentParenting #ScienceofAttachment #GentleParenting #PositiveParenting #Life #Love #Instagood 🥰 Feel free to SHARE this post, but please remember to TAG @relationshipslovehappiness when you do 🥰
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Heading into the weekend with happy thoughts ✌️❤️ #RLHProjectMeme #Positive #Positivity #BePositive #PositiveVibes #PeaceAndLove #Peace #Love #GoodVibes #Happiness #HappyVibes #HarbhajanSinghYogi ✌️❤️ Feel free to SHARE this post, but remember to TAG @RelationshipsLoveHappiness when you do ✌️❤️
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A healthy relationship involves two people who understand that mature love requires empathy and selflessness. And two people who know that achieving that goal takes dedication and a whole lot of hard work. ❤️ By the way, I am in no way saying that my husband and I have the healthiest relationship (no relationship is perfect), but we both have worked really hard to get this far (20+ years!). And that “willingness to do the work” is what matters. ❤️ #rlhprojectfamily #empathy #selflessness #romanticrelationships #love #happiness #marriage #MeIRL #husbandandwife #dating #picoftheday #photooftheday ❤️
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There’s no perfect way to end a relationship. But if you need to break things off, there are research-based ways that are considered by most to be more effective than others. 💛 SWIPE to listen to a short clip of my lecture video about breaking up and then click the LINK IN MY BIO to head over to my YouTube channel to watch the full video. 💛 #RLHProjectMeme #BreakingUp #BreakUp #Communication #TalkToYouPartner #HowTo #CommunicationSkills #Dating #Relationships #Marriage #EffectiveCommunication 💛 Feel free to SHARE this post, but remember to TAG @RelationshipsLoveHappiness when you do 💛
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“If you want your child to be happily married one day, building a secure attachment now is key to achieving that goal.” -Dr. Jennie Rosier 💞 #Parenting #Attachment #Babies #KidsOfInstagram #TheScienceOfAttachment #Parenting101 #ParentingGoals #ParentingAdvice #Love #Family #RLHProjectFamily 💞
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Love and relationships make the world go ‘round 💕 #relationshipgoals #love #rlhprojectmeme #marriage #dating #lovegoals #garychapman 💕
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Engaged? Here are TWELVE things you and your fiancé can do before you tie the knot. (And yes, that’s me and my husband back when we were engaged— 13.5 years ago!) 1. Read a book about how or why marriages fail (Maybe “Why Marriages Succeed or Fail” by John Gottman). And talk to each other about how you plan to deal with any of the issues you read about. 2. Write a love letter to give to your partner the night before your wedding. 3. Create a budget and make a plan about how you money is actually going to be spent. 4. Talk about experiences from your past where you both had fun and laughed together. Interestingly, reminiscing about laughter from your shared past can significantly improve your relationship satisfaction. 5. Write out a list of reasons why you want to marry your partner and keep it somewhere private for you to read to yourself whenever you’re angry with your mate in the future. 6. Go for a drive and show your partner where you grew up. Talk about your fondest memories as a kid and maybe even go out to eat at a local restaurant that's still around. 7. Talk about three things you learned from your parents that you hope to use when parenting your own children. 8. Agree to disagree. You are not always going to agree on everything in marriage. The sooner you figure that out, the better. 9. Talk about your in-laws. How often do you want to see them? Are they going to be highly involved, moderately involved, or only mildly involved in your new life together? What does that mean? 10. Talk about your 1 year, 5 year, and 10 year plans. When do you want to have kids? Where do you hope to live? What do you hope to be doing? 11. Pay off as much of your debt as possible. 12. Promise to always work your hardest to keep your marriage in tact. And to try everything if things start to go downhill. Don't just give up. 🥰 #RLHProjectFamily #marriage #engaged #relationships #love #marriagetips #premaritaladvice #wisewords #lovelist 🥰 Feel free to SHARE this post, but please remember to TAG @relationshipslovehappiness when you do 🥰
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EPISODE FOUR of the Love Matters Podcast is available NOW! 🧡 EPISODE FOUR is all about attachment in middle childhood (about 6-12 years) and adolescence (about 13-18 years). In this episode, I talk about the shifting attachment needs of these age groups and provide you with some easy-to-follow tips for developing secure bonds. 🧡 Swipe to listen to a clip 🧡 You can listen to the full episode by clicking the link in my bio OR heading over to my YouTube channel OR searching for the Love Matters podcast on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Breaker, Pocket Casts, or Anchor. 🧡 Lucky for you, I'm not just offering a podcast to help you understand attachment. I've also created a 58-page digital workbook that you can purchase by clicking the LINK IN MY BIO. 🧡 Special thanks to my contributors in this episode: Rachel & Helen. 🧡#RLHProjectMeme #Attachment #ScienceOfAttachment #LoveMatters #LoveMattersPodcast #AttachmentMatters #DigitalWorkbook #Workbook #Education #SelfReflection #LearnAboutAttachment #PodcastEpisode #ParentingPodcast #CommunicationPodcast #PodcastAboutAttachment #AttachmentPodcast 🧡 Feel free to SHARE this post, but remember to TAG @RelationshipsLoveHappiness when you do 🧡