Useful tips for maintaining healthy relationships!
ℹ️HOW TO HAVE HEALTHY ARGUMENTS:
Everybody can have arguments, you'll find these in healthiest of relationships and often times it becomes a monologue that blocks the communication channel where it should be a dialogue that sails the boat really🙃
then, how do you avoid the negativity that comes from a nasty argument among couples and turn it upside down to get better communication across instead?
TIPS:
1. Set a timer for each partner to put across their viewpoint!
2. Listen as well as speak
3. Calm down and cool off in between your turn( Be patient to other person's point of view, even when you do not agree with them.
RESULTS: This exercise gives an opportunity to create balance and bring out deep-seated issues/problems thereby resolving concerns leading to BETTER COMMUNICATION!
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Poll: Are Kiwis allergic to “exuberance”? 🥝
In The Post’s opinion piece on the developments set to open across Aotearoa in 2026, John Coop suggests that, as a nation, we’re “allergic to exuberance.”
We want to know: Are we really allergic to showing our excitement?
Is it time to lean into a more optimistic view of the place we call home? As big projects take shape and new opportunities emerge, perhaps it’s worth asking whether a little more confidence (and enthusiasm!) could do us some good.
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41.7% Yes
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33.5% Maybe?
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24.8% No
Some Choice News!
Many New Zealand gardens aren’t seeing as many monarch butterflies fluttering around their swan plants and flower beds these days — the hungry Asian paper wasp has been taking its toll.
Thanks to people like Alan Baldick, who’s made it his mission to protect the monarch, his neighbours still get to enjoy these beautiful butterflies in their own backyards.
Thinking about planting something to invite more butterflies, bees, and birds into your garden?
Thanks for your mahi, Alan! We hope this brings a smile!
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