My Dating Ideas

Most relationships, whether professional or personal, have the potential of causing stress in the lives of people. When you experience stress in a relationship, you tend to let it take control of how you feel and what you do. You also have a tendency of doing things more unhappily and in a hurried manner. This results in your becoming either aggressive when dealing with others in order to release the stress, or becoming submissive as a way to hide the stress. While aggressiveness may make you feel better temporarily, you soon begin feeling stressed even further because of hurting another person, whereas by hiding your stress by being submissive, you internalize it and hurt yourself emotionally, and thus cause further stress in your relationships. Relationships that are chronically stressful can have a negative impact on your spiritual, emotional and physical health.

When stressed, your manner of communication will alter when you respond to a stressful situation that goes beyond your threshold of tolerance. The kind of behavior most people choose to manage a situation they find stressful will usually be something that they have used in the past, which they feel protected, them. It is an inbuilt human instinct to heed internal factors while blocking out external ones. However, by blocking out external issues, like the feelings of other people, and listening to only your internal factors, you impinge negatively on your interpersonal communication skills.

In order to have relationships that are free of stress, you require motivation, commitment, positive intent, and learning and using certain skills