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Love Lines Level 1
Love Lines Level 1 Positive Rationales
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Accommodation | Way of handling conflict in which one person sacrifices his or her goals for the goals of another. |
| Adaptability | A relationship’s ability to recalibrate to respond to stress. |
| Birds-of-a-Feather Effect | Occurs when we are attracted to those we perceive as similar to ourselves. |
| Certainty | The belief in your ability to predict and control your own experiences. |
| Collaboration | A way of handling conflict by mutual problem solving. |
| Communication Skills | Repeatable behaviors that enable you to improve the quality of your partnerships. |
| Compromise | An agreeable resolution to a conflict achieved by an unequal balance of power, where one partner is the decision maker. |
| Emotional Intelligence | The ability to manage emotions, communicate them constructively, and solve relationship problems. |
| Emotion-sharing | Requires disclosing our emotions to others. |
| Empathy | An attempt to identify with another person by understanding his or her perspective and feelings. |
| Everyday Talk | Habitual, mundane communication within relationships. |
| Functional Rules | Foster communication, strengthen relationships, and empower partners to reach their goals. |
| Honesty | Truthful communication, without exaggeration or omission of relevant information. |
| Integrative Agreements | Conflict resolution strategy achieved when both people collaborate to meet all of their goals. |
| Intercultural Competence | The ability to communicate with partners from different backgrounds in ways that are ethical, appropriate, and effective. |
| Intimacy | A feeling of closeness and connectedness that develops through communication. |
| One-across | A message or response that suggests the power in a relationship is evenly distributed between the partners. |
| Reframing | Changes the way problematic situations are viewed by creating a more positive frame. |
| Relational Commitment | A promise to remain in a relationship and make it successful. |
| Relational Maintenance | Includes efforts that partners make to keep their relationship in a desired condition. |
| Relationship Goals | Including building, maintaining, or terminating relationships with others through interpersonal communication. |
| Rule Negotiation | The ability to mediate potential conflicts by adjusting the rules that foster communication, strengthen relationships, and empower partners to reach their goals. |
| Sexual Communication | Includes interactions about sex, sexuality, and intimacy. |
| Sincere Questions | Attempts to elicit information that enable the asker to understand the other person. |
| Social Support | The process of using communication to help another person reduce his/her stress. |
| Symmetrical Relationships | Characterized by an equal balance of power. |
| World-mindedness | The ability to practice and demonstrate acceptance and respect toward other cultures' beliefs, values, and customs. |
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