To the Editor: Your article gives much deserved credit to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for supporting preventive efforts to reduce relationship abuse among youths.
There is evidence that well-designed school programs can reduce relationship violence for young people, who are more likely to be victims of violence than older people.
"Reduced relationship commitment... leads to dissolution considerations and, thereby, to actual relationship breakup," according to co-author Giuseppe Pantaleo.
[postnatal interview #20052] Making time to talk and spending time together were recognised as valuable ways to reduce relationship tensions.
(CF3, female community member) Whilst some women and men still expected the contribution to be repaid 'when the man was able', their contribution to household provision was noted by both men and women to reduce relationship tensions.
For example, Behavioural Marital/Couple Therapy and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy-based couple counselling have significantly reduced relationship distress, as measured by the Marital Adjustment Scale (MAT) [ 34], and the DAS [ 35, 36], with results maintained over time, and compared to no-treatment controls [ 37, 38].
Regression analyses showed PDC veterans had significantly less adverse outcomes than those receiving usual care, particularly for more impaired veterans after 6 months, including reduced relationship strain (B = −0.09; p = 0.05), depression (B = −0.10; p = 0.03), and unmet need (B = −0.28; p = 0.02; and B = −0.52; p = 0.08).
And one finding hinted at a causal relationship: people who were more anxious about their relationships "groomed" their partners more often than those who felt more secure with their partners, suggesting that grooming may serve to reduce relationship-related anxiety and to promote the development of romantic bonds.
Also, the use of only the regimen subscale of the DDS may have reduced relationships between DDS, self-management, and A1C.
Reducing your relationship to a mercenary transaction, you may have other things that attract him to you: conversation, affection, money.
