Researcher, Dr. John Gottman studied relationships for over four decades. He recommends that married couples build love maps to strengthen their relationship. Love maps can also be built to improve parent-child communication. It’s a method of enhancing emotional intimacy. You feel a sense of affection and attachment when you are able to bare your soul with the other without being ridiculed or judged.
Here are a few questions that will help you build love maps.
1. What is your greatest fear?
2. What is your most embarrassing moment?
3. What is your favourite/funniest/saddest childhood memory?
4. What are your worries?
5. What do you do to unwind and de-stress?
6. What are your life dreams?
7. In the past week, have I said things that made you feel hurt or disrespected?
8. What are the qualities you like/dislike about me?
9. How can I make you feel loved?
10. Name a difficult challenge we conquered together.
Love maps are built throughout one’s life. Families with strong bonds have detailed love maps of each other.
Sit down with your loved ones to ask and answer the above questions.
Become genuinely interested and curious about each other.
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