| Supporting Your Partner A big part of knowing what #ConsciousCoupling means is understanding the importance of supporting your partner. Supporting them in sickness and health, good times and bad, all those things wedding vows list out. However, too much of anything is never good, including too much support. In recent studies, it has been shown that relationships function better if men are receiving the right type of support and women ask for support when they need it. No matter how long a couple has been together it isn't fair to assume your partner will just know that you are upset and offer you help, you need to ask. In a study researching different types of support (physical/emotional, esteem, informational, and tangible) in the participants' relationships it was found that giving too much informational support - meaning unsolicited advice - proved to be the worst for the relationship. In contrast, it was found that esteem support can never hurt the relationship providing the compliment giver actually means what they are saying. #ConsciousCoupling urges you to ASK for support! You should never feel like you cannot ask your partner for help. If you need support, request it and if you're providing the support, ask what you can do to help your partner more. It's easy to assume that men just want to deal with things on their own and women need you to hold their hand the entire way through a problem, and sometimes that is true but other times it's the opposite. Different people require different kinds of support. Here are some final tips from us on how to be supportive: - Respect your partner's personal decisions
- Show that you have faith in your partner
- Work together to maintain balance in life together
- Don't be threatened by what your partner has accomplished - be happy for them and tell them how proud of them you are
- Do not try and solve their problems, just help them through it! Let them find their own solution
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