Mindful Relationship Habits Quotes

“Where we were once laser-focused on our partner and how to make him or her happy, we are now more focused on ourselves and how we can protect our turf, nurse our wounds, and blame our partners when things turn sour.”
― S.J. Scott, Mindful Relationship Habits: 25 Practices for Couples to Enhance Intimacy, Nurture Closeness, and Grow a Deeper Connection

“According to a study by the Marriage Foundation”
― S.J. Scott, Mindful Relationship Habits: 25 Practices for Couples to Enhance Intimacy, Nurture Closeness, and Grow a Deeper Connection

“it takes five positive encounters between couples to counteract the impact of one negative encounter. When you allow an argument to simmer for days”
― S.J. Scott, Mindful Relationship Habits: 25 Practices for Couples to Enhance Intimacy, Nurture Closeness, and Grow a Deeper Connection

“That habit is having regular meetings with your partner to assess how things are going between you—what’s working well, what needs to change, and what you need to work on to heal any rifts or hurt feelings.”
― S.J. Scott, Mindful Relationship Habits: 25 Practices for Couples to Enhance Intimacy, Nurture Closeness, and Grow a Deeper Connection

“When you have a mindful relationship with your partner, you are intentional about all your choices and actions within it. You become more responsive to each other and less reactive to your challenges and ego needs. You evolve to a higher level of interaction with one another, one in which your focus is not so much on yourselves but more on the health, happiness, and intimacy of the relationship.”
― S.J. Scott, Mindful Relationship Habits: 25 Practices for Couples to Enhance Intimacy, Nurture Closeness, and Grow a Deeper Connection

“Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large. But when we focus on others, our world expands. Our own problems drift to the periphery of the mind and so seem smaller, and we increase our capacity for connection—or compassionate action.”
― S.J. Scott, Mindful Relationship Habits: 25 Practices for Couples to Enhance Intimacy, Nurture Closeness, and Grow a Deeper Connection

“The more you learn about each other, the deeper and more connected your relationship will grow. And because all of us continue to change and evolve over time, this mutual learning process is a lifetime endeavor. You can encourage, inspire, support, and motivate one another as you share your inner worlds year after year.”
― S.J. Scott, Mindful Relationship Habits: 25 Practices for Couples to Enhance Intimacy, Nurture Closeness, and Grow a Deeper Connection

“A strong, happy, evolved relationship is definitely something worth fighting for and prioritizing in your life.”
― S.J. Scott, Mindful Relationship Habits: 25 Practices for Couples to Enhance Intimacy, Nurture Closeness, and Grow a Deeper Connection

“relationships unravel due to lack of attention and effort.”
― S.J. Scott, Mindful Relationship Habits: 25 Practices for Couples to Enhance Intimacy, Nurture Closeness, and Grow a Deeper Connection

“Review your answers and comments with each other. Once you respond to the statements and make notes, sit down together and discuss the areas in which you both feel uncomfortable or unable to be vulnerable and open. Do you feel this way because of your own reticence to be vulnerable or because of the way your partner has reacted or responded in the past?”
― S.J. Scott, Mindful Relationship Habits: 25 Practices for Couples to Enhance Intimacy, Nurture Closeness, and Grow a Deeper Connection

“The more you practice mindfulness, the more present moments you’ll savor and the less unconscious you will become.”
― S.J. Scott, Mindful Relationship Habits: 25 Practices for Couples to Enhance Intimacy, Nurture Closeness, and Grow a Deeper Connection

“Praise your partner in public. Have you ever been out with another couple, and one partner criticizes or diminishes the other in front of you? Everyone laughs awkwardly and tries to move on, but you can see the hurt and betrayal in the wounded partner’s eyes. When partners cherish one another, they not only avoid demeaning each other in public, but rather they find ways to give praise. You want others to see the best qualities in your partner, and you make a point to offer words of affirmation and appreciative looks to your significant other in front of everyone.”
― S.J. Scott, Mindful Relationship Habits: 25 Practices for Couples to Enhance Intimacy, Nurture Closeness, and Grow a Deeper Connection