May's Support Group topic
Strengthening Your Primary Relationship or Marriage
Foster parenting has its challenges — both your foster children and you will benefit from the support of strong primary relationships/marriages. Understanding the value of these relationships is crucial to your endurance. Learn how to water these important relationships with the following resources.
"Frientimacy" Ted Talk
Check out this powerful talk on the importance of close friendships. The speaker makes a claim that in order to have close friendships we must pursue three qualities: positivity, consistency and vulnerability. Without these three roads our friendships can lack depth and leave us feeling very unseen and lonely.
Consistency, vulnerability, and positivity are further explained in the above video. Consider which one of the three factors in the Frientimacy Triangle is your strength? Which factor is your weakness?
Tips on Addressing Issues Without Feeling Like a "Nag"
Check out this short reel on Instagram that gives five tips on how to address issues in a relationship (or even with a friend) without starting a fight! Click here to watch this reel.
Building Stronger Relationships
This resource gets right to the point with three pillars of strong relationships. The author keeps it simple and focuses on, apologizing, forgiving, and listening well in relationships. The 3 Most Important Ways to Strengthen Relationships (selecthealth.org)
Three Steps to Happier Relationships
This video gives three practical tips of intervention when struggling in a relationship. The speaker helps us reset our mindset on what the problem truly is.
All too often we are hasty to blame our partner in times of crisis, but this video reaffirms the power of being on the same team as your loved ones.
How might you use these tools to strengthen your primary relationship or marriage?