Online: Courageous conversations with your partner

When your relationship is not a bed of roses, communication is essential

You and your partner... You're a team, soulmates. But sometimes there are moments in your relationship when you seriously clash, find yourselves on a totally different wavelength, or don't even like each other very much, it seems. Open communication in a conversation about sensitive issues and tense themes, in a relationship based on love, requires courage. By talking about difficult issues with your partner, you can both avoid a lot of frustration and unhappiness. If you embark on this course about improving communication in a relationship, you'll give your relationship a boost. This course offers you some pointers that will help you.

Theme: Communication and interacton
Increase your trust and mutual understanding
Reading time: 2 hours
Study time: 12 hours
Total duration: 2-6 weeks

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What and how

How do you bring up in a conversation the fact that you've been annoyed for weeks because your partner hardly does any household chores? Doesn't make enough of an effort with the kids, is (pre)occupied with anything but you? It could be odd jobs around the house, garden, kitchen chores, or more serious themes. How do you say that you haven't really enjoyed sex that much for a long time? That you don't agree with your partner's spending habits? That you feel lonely? That you've fallen in love with someone else? In this course, you'll discover how to raise these issues with your partner. You'll learn how to handle difficult or challenging reactions and above all, how to keep the conversation between you going. How to communicate with your spouse respectfully and without offending him or her. The focus is on how to communicate better in a loving relationship. Much of what you'll learn in this setting can also be applied to communicating with friends and at work.

What will I learn?
New Heroes helps you handle tense conversations in your relationships. We call them "courageous" conversations. Because it requires courage to talk about a subject that's sensitive for you both, which evokes emotions and makes you feel uneasy. You'll learn that you'll be able to cope better if you're well prepared. You'll be aware of the patterns, pitfalls, and unspoken expectations in your relationship. You'll also learn how to handle your emotions and those of your partner. You might already have some experience with talking about sensitive or intimate topics. It's also possible that certain topics are taboo in your particular situation or environment. If so, get as much as possible from this course that's relevant, and what you feel comfortable you. However, you should realize that if you want to learn new things and grow as a person, sometimes, you do need to step outside your comfort zone.

What will I do?
Bring up sensitive themes more effectively and earlier on by talking about them and clearly communicating with your partner. There's nothing as damaging to your relationship as simmering discontentment. And nothing as beneficial as talking about what's going on with you both and what you really want. For example: have you already discussed your ideas for the coming weekend? What are your plans; what would you like to do? Are they consistent with your partner's? Here's another example: perhaps your partner sneered at you today or cracked a joke. Any idea what he or she meant by it? Be courageous and talk about it. This course will help you.

In this learning journey you'll learn:

how to communicate openly about difficult topics
how to break fixed patterns
how to listen and cope with emotions

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Meet the master

Our online courses are written by our "masters." Each one of them is an expert in their field, and they all have many years of experience. Among them you'll find trainers, psychologists, coaches, authors, etc.

Marjolijn de Galan is the master behind this learning journey. Marjolijn is an enthusiastic master who has worked for years with people that want to flourish in life. She too has the occasional courageous conversation with her partner...

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