Couples Question

How often do you discuss your needs with your partner? How about your values?

We need more than air, food, and water. We need compassion, understanding, trust, communication, creativity, passion... the list could go on and on. Those needs also tell us about and correlate to our values: openness, privacy, loyalty, security, dignity, family, justice, peace, etc.

✨️Our needs and values are constantly interacting with our partner's✨️

We often feel compelled to meet our needs without the insight to connect those needs to our values or the tools to communicate them to our partner(s).

Fun activity: Identify some of your values, top 5 if you can (it's hard to pare it down!). See if that offers you any insight into your own needs and habits. That could become a stepping stone into some vulnerable conversations with the trusted people around you.

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