Concept from Ch6

This chapter is filled with so many great points and concepts, that it was even hard to choose the best out of so many. I would like to point out "Relational Maintenance Behaviors". This concept stood out for me, because I think that these behaviors can ether make our life great. The more educated people are on behaviors, the more they want to live a happier life, because they start to understand that it is up to them how to behave in this or that situation. The textbook gives us a list of 7 behaviors and explains the benefits of them. They are: positivity, openness, assurance, networks, task sharing, conflict management and advice sharing. I know that every person would prioritize this list differently,  but I am sure that it doesn't matter what order they are in, as long as we understand them. I desire to have a life-long relationship with my husband, and to make the journey more smooth there are things I choose to do, or in other words there are behaviors I choose to have. Assurance would be most important, because even if my marriage is filled with advice sharing and task sharing, if my spouse is not being faithful there is no point for me to include all the other behaviors in my marriage. I would prioritize my list or most important to less important as such: assurance, openness, positivity, advice sharing, and only then the rest of the behaviors. We  have to make sure that we have more positive behaviors in a relationship than bad behaviors, that way we can have much more happiness from a great relationship.