Expectation Management for better relationships and bonding for would be brides. Image Management for lasting first impression, to enhance perception and influence other.

1. Expectation Management
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2. Marriage
Family
Groom
Bride

3. Relationships
“How we deal with relationships
is connected to how we start in
the world and how much love
and attention we give and
receive.”

4. Proactive Approach
• Be proactive to create happy
marriage and build strong
relationship bonding
• To make good and lasting first
impressions, manage the practical
aspects of a marriage and family
relationships

5. Relationship Management
Values, beliefs and
understanding
Culture
Expectation
Relationship

6. Relationship Management
• Manage expectations
• Respect culture
• Understand others values and
beliefs
• Manage disagreements and
conflicts

7. 1. Be yourself
• Positive attitude
• Smile on face
• Cheerful
• Good humor
• Listening skills
• Lively appearance
• Softly assertive
• Loveable

8. 2. Listen better to understand
• Don’t just hear but listen with
your heart and mind for
empathetic and effective
listening
• When you are not really
listening, other may not be
conscious of it but they
probably feel it
• Listening fosters good
relationships

9. 3. Make time to be together
• Share precious moments - talk,
walk, love and laugh together,
have some fun and excitement
• Have vibrant and lively relations
• Get excited about each other’s
successes, build and capitalize on
them
• Instead of using words like “I,
Me, My and mine”- use “We,
Our”.

10. 4. Companionship’s importance
• We move into social realms of
extended families, friendships and
eventually to romantic love, coupling,
partnership and marriage
• It’s importance is as high for our
survival as food, water and shelter,
because we as a society are a powerful
species
• After divorces, death of a life partner
and bad relationships people marry
again for companionship

11. 5. Accept people & culture
• Accept people as they are with their
good and bad personality without
complain
• Try to find out good qualities in
others, appreciate them and neglect
bad qualities
• Other’s view, thinking, behaviour
and understanding may be different
than yours, so manage it
• Respect and value other’s culture as
it brings celebrations and happiness,
it binds people together and with
their roots

12. 6. Disagreement, Conflict are natural
Committing yourself to live with
someone from different
culture, values, beliefs and
understanding invites a certain
level of disagreement and
conflict, which are natural

13. 7. Set reasonable expectations
• Your spouse should strive to
make you happy; but you are
also responsible for your own
happiness and healthy
relationships
• Set reasonable expectations,
communicate your needs and
make an effort to invest in
your own state of mind

14. 8. Being together for wellbeing
• We make and break each other’s
hearts constantly.
• We suffer from attachment
disorder, conflict, control,
children, power struggles,
bullying, cheating, extra-marital
affair, loneliness and divorce
• So being together is essential to
our wellbeing

15. 9. Don’t seek perfection in other
• As per your expectations: He is
supposed to be “The One, Bringing All
Manners” of Perfection into Your Life.
He has to be your best friend, your
only romantic partner, who inspires
you every day, somebody who is going
to help your career, somebody who co-
parents with you…The giant sack of
expectation that you’ve piled on to
your head that brings sorrow in your
life
• When you are not perfect how others
can be perfect for you

16. 10. Don’t try to change other
• Changing oneself is easier than
changing others. Try to mould
yourself in new environment and
speak at others individual level
• Accept family members with their
positive as well as negative qualities
• Be patient, you can bring small
changes smartly and gradually
• Habits can be changed but heritage
can’t

17. 11. Don’t try to compare
• Everyone is unique, so their culture,
values, beliefs, personal style, and
lifestyle
• Respect individuality, understand
culture, value independence,
manage interdependence and live
life with human reality
• Don’t compare, instead respect
differences between two families for
harmony in relationships
• The ways of communications,
interaction and celebrating life may
be different at both the places

18. 12. Don’t suffocate each other
Two people clinging tightly to
each other can hardly walk
together but two strong
whole individuals walking
freely, side-by-side, function
best together and
individually.
Give personal space to each
other

19. 13. Don’t compete in relationship
When two people cooperate,
combine their abilities and
encourage one another, they
create a synergistic, alive and
vital partnership.
Be an ideal team member as
we know Individuals
perform, but teams win

20. Happy Bonding