Being a healthy couple involves spending meaningful time together and fostering a shared sense of couple identity in order to sustain a close, enduring friendship based on trust and love.
| SHR-F1 | Share: Developing and Maintain Friendships to Strengthen Relationships Brief summary for professionals about couple identity and friendship in couple relationships. (For a copy of the full chapter, see the National Extension Relationship and Marriage Education Model) |
| SHR-F2 | Develop and Maintain Your Friendship Fact sheet that will help clients understand ways they can connect and strengthen their friendship with their partner. |
| SHR-F3 | Making Time to Connect Fact sheet that will help clients identify simple ways they can make time to share with their partner every day. |
| SHR-T1 | Ways We Like to Share Clients will identify individual and shared interests and activities that they can do together to strengthen their relationship. |
| SHR-T2 | Bids for Connection Clients will learn to notice and respond to each other's bids for connection to help keep their relationship positive. |
| SHR-T3 | Building a Couple Identity Clients will learn how to identify shared values and goals and ways they can work together to protect their relationship. |
| SHR-T4 | Couple Rituals and Traditions Clients will identify existing and new couple traditions and rituals that can enrich their relationship. |
| SHR-T5 | Sending Positive Messages Clients will identify some ways they can communicate positively with their partner and ensure messages are understood. |
| SHR-T6 | Am I Ready To Listen? Clients will better understand how distractions interfere with their ability to listen and communicate effectively with their partner. |