TRUST AND COMMITMENT Drs. John and Julia Gottman teach us that trust is cherishing each other and showing your partner you can be counted on. They go on to share that choosing commitment means accepting your partner exactly as he or she is, despite their flaws. Their book Eight Dates: [More...]
FOR NEURO-DIVERGENT COUPLES
LOVE LANGUAGES:
WORDS OF AFFIRMATION
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash Gary Chapman, author of The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts, describes five different ways that couples in love can communicate their feelings to their partner. The first of these is Words of Affirmation. Chapman writes, [More...]
NEURO-DIVERGENT COUPLES: THE FIVE LANGUAGES OF LOVE
Gary Chapman wrote a book called, The Five Languages of Love: The Secret to Love that Lasts. If you or your partner are autistic, you may feel you have enough trouble communicating socially with your loved one in one language. Five languages? How does that even work? Tchiki Davis wrote [More...]
Neurodivergent Couples: Be AWAKE to Communication during COVID-19
Whenever two people live together, there will be communication challenges to overcome. When one or both of the partners are autistic, that can add to the potential for miscommunication. When both partners are sheltering in place together and working from home, the possibility of problems can seem [More...]