G&STC’s Director Jesse Kahn talks with Catherine Pearson at the New York Times about Questions to Ask Your Partner to Strengthen Your Relationship
Check out G&STC’s Director Jesse Kahn talking with Catherine Pearson at the New York Times about what questions to ask your partner to strengthen your relationship.
How have we helped each other through hard times?
Whenever you go through a difficult stretch together, it is important to take time after to debrief, Ms. Silverstein said. What worked? What didn’t? Even if the past few years have been traumatic for you and your partner for any number of reasons, most couples can identify what she called micromoments when they came through for each other.
Another way of thinking about it is, “How did we rely on each other, and how did that feel to each of us?” suggested Jesse Kahn, a licensed clinical social worker and director of the Gender and Sexuality Therapy Center in New York City.
MORE QUESTIONS TO ASK YOUR PARTNER FROM G&STC DIRECTOR JESSE KAHN:
What have you learned about yourself in this new environment? And what have you learned about me?
How have we handled conflict during times of stress, and how do we feel about that?
When we had and have conflict, do we come together and repair in ways that worked for us?
What do we want to leave in the past and what do we want to take with us into our future?