Speak Your Mind (Communication Styles)
This communication style involves failing to express feelings or needs, often letting others cross personal limits.
What is Passive Communication?
Unlike healthy love which develops gradually over time, infatuation typically develops at _____ pace.
What is Quickly / Instantly?
SWAP POINTS
This term describes having a clear understanding of your own values, emotions, and behaviors before entering a relationship.
What is Self-Awareness?
Overwhelming someone with excessive gifts, praise, and grand commitments very early in a relationship to gain influence is called this.
What is Love Bombing?
A clear limit set to protect your physical, emotional, or mental well-being is defined as a personal ______.
What is a Boundary?
Finger-pointing, shouting, and acting like your own needs are the only ones that matter are key features of this style.
What is Aggressive Communication?
While infatuation focuses mainly on how a partner makes YOU look or feel, healthy love focuses on this mutual concept.
What is Mutual Support / Shared Growth?
Relying completely on a partner to "fix" you or provide your entire sense of self-worth leads to this unhealthy psychological dynamic.
What is Codependency?
Making someone doubt their own memory, sanity, or perception of reality by denying facts or lying is known as this manipulative behavior.
What is Gaslighting?
SWAP POINTS WITH A TEAM
Setting rules around password sharing, location tracking, and response times falls under this category of boundary.
What is a Digital Boundary?
Expressing anger indirectly through sarcasm, procrastination, or the silent treatment fits this communication style.
What is Passive-Aggressive Communication?
Infatuation is built primarily on physical attraction or an idealized fantasy, whereas healthy love relies on these two foundations.
What are Mutual Trust and Shared Values?
Maintaining your own separate hobbies, friends, and personal goals alongside a romantic relationship demonstrates this quality.
What is Independence?
Intentionally cutting off a partner from their friends, family, or support systems is this specific red flag.
What is Isolation?
Keeping your feelings separate from another person's emotional outbursts and refusing unearned guilt is an example of this type of boundary.
What is an Emotional Boundary?
Instead of blaming with "You" statements, assertive communicators use this specific type of statement to express feelings clearly.
What is an "I" Message / Statement?
When flaws or major disagreements appear, infatuation usually breaks down easily, but healthy love relies on this skill set.
What are Healthy Conflict Resolution / Communication Skills?
This critical self-awareness skill involves managing your own stress and emotional outbursts so you don't project them onto a partner.
What is Emotional Regulation?
Blaming outside circumstances or the other partner for all mistakes while refusing to apologize shows a distinct lack of this.
What is Accountability (or Personal Responsibility)?
To properly enforce a boundary after stating the limit, an individual must clearly communicate and follow through with this essential element if the limit is violated.
What is a Consequence?
Jordan says: "You never care about my schedule! You're so selfish!" Rephrase this into an assertive "I" statement.
What is "I feel upset when plans change unexpectedly because my time is valuable"?
Lucas texts Maya 50 times a day after two weeks of dating, calls her his "soulmate," and gets angry when she sees her friends. Identify the two psychological concepts shown here.
What are Infatuation and Love Bombing (or Isolation)?
Name three distinct components of what an individual "brings to the table" in a healthy partnership.
What are Values/Standards, Emotional Regulation, Communication Skills, and Independence? (Any 3)
When Casey gets caught lying and says: "I only lied because you're paranoid and crazy, so this is your fault," Casey is demonstrating these two red flags.
What are Gaslighting and Blame-Shifting / Lack of Accountability?
Jamie tells Pat they need quiet time on Sunday afternoons to recharge and won't be texting. Identify Jamie's boundary type and how a healthy partner should respond.
What is a Time / Mental Boundary and Respecting the limit without guilt-tripping?