Emotions & Communication Climate
This term refers to the ability to understand and manage one's own emotions and the emotions of others effectively.
What is emotional intelligence?
This style of responding to conflict involves withdrawing from the situation or leaving entirely.
What is the exit response?
This type of friendship is based on enduring emotional bonds and mutual care, often lasting a lifetime.
What is "friends of the heart"?
This style of love is playful, carefree, and often avoids commitment.
What is ludus?
This family communication style is characterized by a strong focus on uniformity and adherence to rules as well as closed communication climate.
What is protective?
This type of emotional expression does not reflect true feelings.
What is counterfeit emotional language?
This metaphor describes a form of conflict where all grievances are brought up at once, overwhelming the conversation.
What is kitchen-sinking?
This term refers to the unwritten expectations that guide how friends interact and support one another.
What is relationship rules?
This love style is practical and based on mutual benefits and compatibility.
What is pragma?
Families that prioritize both open dialogue and respect for individual opinions fall into this category.
What is pluralistic?
This concept describes the balance between opposing needs, like autonomy and connection, in a relationship.
What is relational dialectics?
This conflict resolution orientation seeks mutual benefit and avoids winners and losers.
This term describes the external pressures on friendship, such as competing demands, geographic separation, or differing expectations.
What is external tensions?
This concept describes a couple’s private understandings, rituals, and habits unique to their relationship.
What is relational culture?
This life phase includes transitions such as children leaving home, significantly altering family communication patterns.
What is empty-nest stage?
This term describes the process of validating another person’s feelings, which contributes to a positive communication climate.
What is confirmation?
This unproductive pattern of conflict skirts the issue at hand by bringing up a complaint about the other party.
What is cross-complaining?
This category of friendship reflect relationships tied to a particular phase or context in life.
What is "friends of the road"?
This form of love is altruistic, selfless, and deeply compassionate.
This term was coined regarding the way parents use social media in connection to posting about their children.
What is "sharenting"
Investment, commitment, trust, and comfort with relational dialectics describe features of this.
What is satisfying relationships?
This technique involves setting aside tangential issues during a conflict to focus on the main point.
What is bracketing?
This stage of friendship is characterized by trust, mutual acceptance, and consistent patterns of interaction.
What is stabilized friendship?
This stage of romantic relationship deterioration is when a partner recognizes dissatisfaction within their relationship, privately analyzing the issues, weighing the costs and benefits of staying, and considering potential alternatives before directly confronting their partner about their concerns.
What is intrapsychic process?
This family communication style is both low communication orientation and low conformity orientation.
What is Laissez-faire?