Congratulations!

You have completed Module 4: Building Emotional Connection.

In this module you have learned how to feel deeply loved, trusted and connected to your partner, and how to ensure that your partner feels the same way about you.

For couples who are in a long-term relationship, spending time and energy to maintain their emotional connection is vital to maintaining a happy, loving and passionate relationship.

In fact, for almost all successful couples it is their level of emotional connection that allows them to overcome the inevitable trials and tribulations that they will face over time.

Let’s summarize your main learning from this module.

In Lesson 4.1: The Power Of Friendship you learned:

the power of friendship in relationships
what positive and negative sentiment override are
the importance of positive sentiment override, and
three simple ways to keep your relationship in positive sentiment override

In Lesson 4.2: What Are Your Love Boosters? you learned:

what "love boosters" are
a simple question that successful coupes ask themselves every day
typical examples of love boosters, and
what a "love account" is

In Lesson 4.3: Turning Towards Your Partner you learned:

one significant difference between happy and unhappy couples
what a "turning towards" response is
what "bids for connection" are, and
the three possible ways to response to a bid for connection

In Lesson 4.4: The Five Love Languages you learned:

what the "5 love languages are"
examples of each love language
how to use the 5 love languages, and
what your primary love language (or languages) are

In Module 4: Date Night you and your partner gained a deeper understanding of importance of emotional connection in your relationship, as well as how you and your partner can build higher levels of emotional connection in the future.

Congratulations again for completing this module. You are learning a lot about how to have a happier, more loving and passionate relationship!

Before you move onto Module 5 however, discuss the following 4 questions with your partner:

Question 1: What parts of Module 4: Building Emotional Connection have been most impactful to you? (and why?)

Question 2: Are you and your partner taking daily action to improve your relationship? If so, what are you doing? Is there anything else you could do that would further improve your relationship? If you are not taking daily action to improve your relationship, what is stopping you from doing so?

Question 3: Is your relationship improving since you began this course? If so, what is leading to this improvement? If not, what do you think is stopping you and your partner from making improvements?

Question 4: Discuss your hopes, dreams and goals for your relationship with your partner. Have your relationship hopes, dreams and goals changed at all since you began this course?

OK, once you have answered these questions it is time to move on to Module 5: Managing Difficult Conversations!

Module 4: Summary

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