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Love Lines Level 1
Love Lines Level 1 Positive Rationales
Term | Definition |
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Accommodation | Way of handling conflict in which one person sacrifices his or her goals for the goals of another. |
Adaptability | A relationship’s ability to recalibrate to respond to stress. |
Birds-of-a-Feather Effect | Occurs when we are attracted to those we perceive as similar to ourselves. |
Certainty | The belief in your ability to predict and control your own experiences. |
Collaboration | A way of handling conflict by mutual problem solving. |
Communication Skills | Repeatable behaviors that enable you to improve the quality of your partnerships. |
Compromise | An agreeable resolution to a conflict achieved by an unequal balance of power, where one partner is the decision maker. |
Emotional Intelligence | The ability to manage emotions, communicate them constructively, and solve relationship problems. |
Emotion-sharing | Requires disclosing our emotions to others. |
Empathy | An attempt to identify with another person by understanding his or her perspective and feelings. |
Everyday Talk | Habitual, mundane communication within relationships. |
Functional Rules | Foster communication, strengthen relationships, and empower partners to reach their goals. |
Honesty | Truthful communication, without exaggeration or omission of relevant information. |
Integrative Agreements | Conflict resolution strategy achieved when both people collaborate to meet all of their goals. |
Intercultural Competence | The ability to communicate with partners from different backgrounds in ways that are ethical, appropriate, and effective. |
Intimacy | A feeling of closeness and connectedness that develops through communication. |
One-across | A message or response that suggests the power in a relationship is evenly distributed between the partners. |
Reframing | Changes the way problematic situations are viewed by creating a more positive frame. |
Relational Commitment | A promise to remain in a relationship and make it successful. |
Relational Maintenance | Includes efforts that partners make to keep their relationship in a desired condition. |
Relationship Goals | Including building, maintaining, or terminating relationships with others through interpersonal communication. |
Rule Negotiation | The ability to mediate potential conflicts by adjusting the rules that foster communication, strengthen relationships, and empower partners to reach their goals. |
Sexual Communication | Includes interactions about sex, sexuality, and intimacy. |
Sincere Questions | Attempts to elicit information that enable the asker to understand the other person. |
Social Support | The process of using communication to help another person reduce his/her stress. |
Symmetrical Relationships | Characterized by an equal balance of power. |
World-mindedness | The ability to practice and demonstrate acceptance and respect toward other cultures' beliefs, values, and customs. |