Repairing Relationships

Series Summary

Romance, some say, may not be an old concept in Western civilization. Our films are wont to add tumultuous love interests to ancient heroes like Beowulf, Achilles, Alexander, or Caesar, but many cultural theorists, textual experts, and sociologists have argued again and again that sexuality, which is the foundation for modern day romance, is a rather new creation of society, dating back merely a couple hundred years. According to many, Romantic love, or the affection two souls generate when they find kindred spirits in one another, began in the French stories of knights and chivalry. More traditional research, however, claims to find evidence of romance and intimate love in all cultures throughout history. Truly, love is a strange and enigmatic thing.

In this free video series on repairing relationship, communications expert Tracy Goodwin shows you how to use productive communication, empathy, and an open mind to fix trouble relationships and bring two partners closer together. Tracy covers many tips and much advice for relationships. You will learn strategies for communicating, being specific, listing behaviors, and always be concrete. Tracy also redirects your attention, focusing on behavior and feelings in the concrete, not exaggerated or absolute claims.

Video Transcript

"Hey there, I'm Tracy Goodwin, and I'm the red sweater lady, and today we're going to talk about how to repair relationships. It's possible that you have already observed and realized that your relationship is possibly dissolving. And obviously you have two choices. You can let it go, or you can try and fix it. And that's the real question, how do I repair this relationship?' Well, there are some actually some really great strategies that you can use in order to repair the relationship. It's not just so simple as, 'Well, I'll just try to change.' That's not what repairing the relationship is about. It's actually about forming a strategy, identifying problems. Determining what those problems are. How do each of you feel about things? What is not working? And discovering all of those things and putting them in concrete terms so that you can then look at them and say Ok, now we're going to formulate a plan. These things are fixable, and this is what we're going to try to do in order to fix them. So today, I'm going to give you some really great pointers on how to repair, or at least make an attempt to repair that relationship before you completely let it go."