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Emotional Connection Relationship Foundations Online Course

“I want to be a better spouse.” “I want to listen more openly.” “I want to understand my relationship patterns.” This course invites you to turn those intentions into learning about emotional connection, self-awareness, and communication. It is designed for people who want to take an active role in their own growth, whether exploring on their own or with a partner. Our course will help you understand how to structure your relationship with secure boundaries and create the time to share what is on your heart. We will also help you to know how to open up and express difficult thoughts and emotions without creating damaging negative cycle conflicts.

We use our Emotional Connection book as the primary resource for this course.

So now there’s more! The Emotional Connection Online Course is a companion to the book. It takes students even deeper into the science of relationship. Couples learn how to strengthen their emotional bond. The course is NOT therapy, discernment counseling or crisis intervention. It is relationship education. The concepts taught in the course will help anyone build healthy relationship foundations from the ground up…or understand why past relationships have failed…or make good relationships even better, stronger, more resilient and able to stand the tests of time.

Most people have little scientific knowledge about strengthening our emotional bond or even what makes a relationship last for a lifetime. Navigating a lifetime relationship is even more challenging if you grew up in a home where there was divorce and relationship dysfunction. The popular press often glamorizes relationship ideals that create relationship insecurity.

The Emotional Connection Relationship Foundations Online Course is based on 30 years of research in attachment science. Much of the damage caused to relationships can be prevented if couples know how to form healthy emotional bonds from the outset.

Our book, Emotional Connection, and the course take readers into the early foundations of what makes relationships insecure and how to heal broken emotional bonds. By understanding the roots of our insecure childhood attachments we can make sense of our emotional reactions and shutdowns in our adult love relationships. Our course teaches couples to help each other overcome these insecurities by becoming emotionally present to each other in their own relationship.

The Emotional Connection Relationship Foundations Online Course teaches couples how to build these healthy foundations. Once a couple becomes securely attached, communication and intimacy are relatively easy to maintain.

Most couples say “I do” with every intention that their relationship will beat the odds and last a lifetime. Committing to commitment alone does not protect or sustain a relationship. It is committing to emotional connection that makes relationships last a lifetime.

Loving emotions shape attachment bonds and bring life to relationships. People who learn how to be emotionally responsive, validating and engaged are able to bring renewal and joy to their relationships. The emotional investment makes problem solving and supporting each other much easier when the stresses of life come. Lifetime love relationships are relatively easy to keep warm when emotional bonds are secure.

Learning how to express and validate each other’s emotions is the key to making love relationships fulfilling and easy. Learning how to open up and stay out of reactive cycle arguments is not easy and may be impossible without some knowledge and guidance. This course teaches you how to do this and helps you assess whether you will need the help of a therapist to be able to securely emotionally connect.

Emotional Connection Relationship Foundations Online Course is for you if you are:

  • single and want to get your next relationship right from the start
  • wondering why your last relationship failed
  • entering a new relationship after divorce
  • interested in avoiding the common mistakes made in many relationships
  • committed to changing relationship patterns from your family’s history
  • feeling disconnected in your relationship
  • ready to notice your own patterns and practice more thoughtful responses
  • motivated to become a more present spouse or partner
  • in a committed relationship and feel like you’ve fallen out of love
  • interested in understanding your emotions and taking responsibility for your choices

You’ll learn how to:

  • build emotional bonds for secure lifelong love
  • date for lifelong attachment
  • be a better parent
  • understand how your childhood attachments impact all adult love relationships
  • understand patterns that influence emotional connection
  • prioritize your partner for secure lifetime love
  • understand how career and kids affect our primary relationships
  • understand how trust injuries affect connection and when to seek professional support
  • build healthy relationship after divorce
  • reflect on what past relationships can teach you about your own patterns
  • understand and de-escalate negative cycle arguments
  • know the differences between new and mature love
  • build strong foundations for leadership success
  • know when it’s time to seek professional help in your relationship

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