Individuals who express kindness, attempt understanding, demonstrate respect, and invest time to be available and open to their partner are able to maintain stable, healthy couple and marital relationships.
| CRE-F1 | Care: Showing Affection and Respect to Strengthen Relationships Brief summary for professionals about expressions of affection and respect in couple relationships. (For a copy of the full chapter, see the National Extension Relationship and Marriage Education Model) |
| CRE-F2 | Showing Affection and Respect Fact sheet that will help clients understand specific ways they can express affection and respect in their relationship. |
| CRE-T1 | Appreciating the Positive Clients will identify, focus on, and communicate about positive qualities of their partner. |
| CRE-T2 | Caring in Action Clients will identify different ways they can express love in their relationship. |
| CRE-T3 | Love Languages Clients will identify how they and their partner prefer love to be expressed. |
| CRE-T4 | Name the Ways You Care Clients identify ways they and their partners express caring for one another. |
| CRE-T5 | Caring Actions, Not Crabby Reactions Clients will understand the difference between caring actions and crabby reactions. |