STRENGTHENING FAMILY RELATIONSHIP

Strengthening Family Relationship

Strengthening Family Relationship

Self esteem plays a vital role in how you react in a relationship and if you are suffering from low self-esteem, then it is possible that the root of problems in your family relationship is caused by your low self-esteem. Improving your low self-esteem will not only benefit you but it is also good for your family relationships.

When you get married or make a relationship, these feelings have even greater impact on the quality and development of the marital relationship and family life (Hanna, Suggett and Radtke, 2007).

Low self-esteem and low efficacy lead to conflicts and misunderstandings which is not healthy for maintaining good family relationships. Families whose members possess high self-esteem and self-respect have successful family relationships.

People with low self-esteem feel that the love they had from their partners depended on their daily professional achievements. In their successful days they felt that their partners love them more.

In contrast, people with high self-esteem felt that the love of their partner is unconditional. It was also observed that women with high self-esteem even on days that they had failures in their work felt that their partners loved them the most.

These findings show that people with low self-esteem are likely to experience negative feelings and situations because of their personal perceptions that do not correspond to reality. This means that if they have a failure they also feel that the love of their partner is affected from their failure something that does not match with reality.

Such a situation can spoil their family relationships, because people with low self-esteem see their partners in a more negative or even worse way than what the reality is.

In practice this means that people with low self-esteem can benefit from special assistance from psychologists in order to learn how to recognize ...