Communication
This type of communication allows individuals to express their needs and feelings indirectly, often avoiding confrontation. They may say things like, "I’m okay with whatever you want to do," and often fail to make eye contact.
What is Passive Communication?
This is what you do when you listen without interrupting and summarize what you heard?
What is Active listening?
This love language focuses on verbal praise, compliments, and kind words.
What is words of affirmation?
This attachment style is characterized by comfort with closeness and trust in relationships.
What is secure attachment?
What does it mean if someone repeatedly ignores your feelings or opinions?
Emotional invalidation / lack of respect
This is a communication style where individuals express their own needs while also respecting the needs of others. It emphasizes clear and direct communication without being confrontational.
What is Assertive Communication?
This type of statement focuses on your own feelings and experiences rather than blaming others.
What is an “I” statement (Example: “I feel frustrated when I’m not included in decisions.”)
This love language is expressed through doing helpful actions for someone.
What is "Acts of Service?"
This attachment style often worries about being abandoned and craves constant reassurance.
What is Anxious Attachment?
This is the term for repeating back what someone said to confirm you understood them.
What is active listening?
This is a balanced approach where individuals express their own needs while also respecting the needs of others. It emphasizes clear and direct communication without being confrontational.
What is Assertive Communication?
You can do this if emotions are too high to solve a disagreement productively?
What is taking a break or “time-out” to cool down before continuing the conversation?
This love language values thoughtful items that show you were remembered.
What is Receiving Gifts?
This attachment style may respond to conflict by withdrawing or shutting down emotionally.
What is Avoidant?
This manipulation tactic makes you question your own memory or perception of events.
What is gaslighting?
This is the best communication style.
What is assertive communication?
This is the process of finding a middle ground where both people give a little to reach an agreement.
What is a compromise?
This love language is about giving someone your undivided attention and spending meaningful moments together.
What is "quality time?"
This attachment style may respond to conflict by becoming clingy, emotional, or seeking reassurance?
What is Anxious?
Name some nonverbal signs that someone is actively engaged in listening to you.
Maintaining eye contact, nodding, or leaning in.
Give examples of why communication skills are important.
Builds trust. Builds long lasting and healthy relationships. Resolves conflicts. Helps develop a clear understanding. Reduces stress. Creates a positive environment.
We should approach conflict with this mindset.
What is " It is not us versus each other, it is us versus the problem."
Why is it important to know both your own and your partner’s love language?
It helps you give and receive love in ways that feel most meaningful and build stronger, healthier relationships.
Why is it helpful to understand your own attachment style in relationships?
It helps you recognize patterns, improve communication, and build healthier connections.
This is the term for someone using guilt or manipulation to get their way.
What is emotional manipulation / guilt-tripping?