Healthy Relationships

The Military Lifestyle

Relationships are great, but they're not always easy. Got to make time for each other, got to communicate. If you're in a relationship with a military member, in the context of the lifestyle, it's just more complex. This episode explores what you need for a healthy relationship and some things to watch out for.

Special Guest Holly Flower is a social worker and counsellor with the Esquimalt Military Family Resource Centre.

Highlights

• Characteristics of a healthy relationship
• Financial issues can be massive.
• 10:44 The importance of trust
• 11:58 Anger gets a bad rap.
• Red flags
• 16:36 Communication and how we are showing up in the relationship
• Do not take relationships for granted.

Quotes“It's really critical that we're prioritizing our relationships, that we're not taking them for granted, that we are learning how to turn towards one another, how to communicate with one another, how to have each other's back when it does get difficult." - Holly Flower

Connect

• Podcast website
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Links

• Healthy Relationship on CAF Connection
• Family Information Line
• Member Assistance Program

Holly's Recommended Book List

• "Hold Me Tight - Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love" by Dr. Sue Johnson
• "The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work" by Dr. John M. Gottman

Thank you

• Thank you to Organized Sound Productions for their help bringing this podcast to life.