Communication
Relationship Maintenance Strategies
- Behaviors and activities used to sustain the quality of a relationship
- Routine: actions we do naturally that sustain our relationship, “How was your day?”
- Strategic: actions and behaviors we enact to fix relationship or address a change “I have been feeling like we are not connecting lately.”
Common Strategies:
- Positivity
- Openness
- Assurances
- Social Networks
- Sharing Tasks