cmh test 2 Flashcards

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In other words, what you say can either ___ up a person or can ___ a person.

A

Build, destroy.

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Words that build up another person are one way to express love ___

A

Emotionally.

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All too often we allow the ___ of a marriage to dull our sense of proper communication.

A

familiarity.

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A lack of proper communication can bring ___ into a marriage.

A

Contempt.

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___ ___, or words of affirmation, are powerful communicators of love.

A

Verbal compliments.

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By giving compliments and affirmation, many times you can get people to ___ things that need to be done.

A

Do.

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The object of love is not ___ something that you want, but ___ something for the well-being of the one you love.

A

Getting, doing.

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The word encourage means to ___ ___.

A

Inspire courage.

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8
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Every one Of us have areas in which we feel ___.

A

Insecure.

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When dating, we ___ and ___ that our future spouse can do anything. After marriage, hopefully we still ___ it. We just need to keep ___ it.

A

Believe, express, believing, expressing.

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Encouragement requires ___ and seeing the world from your spouse’s perspective.

A

Empathy.

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That means that we must first have to learn what is ___ to our spouse.

A

Important.

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Most of us have potential that we will never ___.

A

Develop.

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13
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What often holds us back is lack of ___.

A

Courage.

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If your spouse is lashing out words of fire, the worst thing you can do is to ___ the ___.

A

Fan the flames.

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15
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If, rather, you choose to be loving you will respond with a ___ voice and a ___ answer.

A

Soft, gentle.

16
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You will receive what they are saying as ___ about their ___ feelings. You will let them ___ you how they are feeling and will seek to put yourself in their shoes and see through their eyes. Then you need to speak softly and kindly express your ___ of why they feel thy way.

A

Information, emotional, tell, understanding.

17
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If you have wronged them, then ___ it, ___ and ask for ___.

A

Admit, apologize, forgiveness.

18
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That is ___ love and the type of communication you must have with someone whose primary love language is words of affirmation.

A

Mature.

19
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Love doesn’t keep a record of ___ ___.

A

Past wrongs.

20
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I am amazed at how many individuals mess up every new day with___.

A

Yesterday.

21
Q

Love makes ___ not ___.

A

Requests, demands.

22
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When I demand things from my spouse I become the ___ and she becomes the ___.

A

Parent, child.

23
Q

If we are to develop an ___ relationship, we need to know each other’s ___.

A

Intimate, desires.

24
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The way we ___ those desires is all important.

A

Express

25
Q

If they come across as ___ then we have erased the possibility of ___ and have driven our spouse away.

A

Demands, intimacy.

26
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If, however, we make known our needs and desires as requests, we are giving ___ and not ___.

A

Guidance, ultimatums.

27
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When you make demands you become a __ not a ___.

A

Tyrant, lover.

28
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A request introduces the element of a ___.

A

Choice.

29
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Your spouse may either choose to ___ to your request or ___ it, because ___ is a choice.

A

Respond, Deny, love.

30
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Thus, a request creates the ___ for an expression of love, whereas a demand ___ that possibility.

A

Possibility, suffocates.