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9. Recognize that your family members 15. Be tactful considerate and
and close friends are experts on you courteous. Avoid taking advantage of
and your behavior. Avoid the tendency the other person’s feelings.
to deny their observations about you –
especially if you are not sure. 16. Ask questions and listen carefully.
Avoid preaching or lecturing.
10. Recognize that disagreement can be
a meaningful form of communication. 17. Do not use excuses. Avoid falling
Avoid destructive arguments. for the excuses of others.
18. Speak kindly
11. Be honest and
open about your politely and softly.
feelings and Avoid nagging yelling
viewpoints. Bring or whining.
up all significant 19. Recognize the
problems even if value of humor and
you are afraid that seriousness. Avoid
doing so will destructive teasing.
disturb another
person. Speak the Summary
truth in love. Avoid As you look ahead to
sullen silences.
new relationships, you
12. Do not put need to be able to
down and/or break old and faulty
manipulate the communication
other person with patterns to allow for
tactics such as healthier interaction.
ridicule, The use of praise and
interrupting, positive reinforcement
name-calling, will reconstruct
changing the wounded and broken
subject, blaming, self-images and will
bugging, sarcasm, build self-esteem,
criticism, pouting, particularly in children.
guilt-inducing, etc. Avoid the one-up By becoming an effective
manship game. communicator, you will also grow and
become a better person which will
13. Be more concerned about how your positively enhance all your
communication affects others than relationships.
about what you intended. Avoid getting
bitter if you are misunderstood. Michael Brady is a web entrepreneur and
is currently running a very popular dating
14. Accept all feelings and try to site (Dating In Ireland). He wishes to coach
understand why others feel and act as people on some skills that will make them
they do. Avoid the tendency to say, more prepared for an online dating
“you shouldn’t feel like that.” experience.

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