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Sign UpWorking nights changes how you show up in relationships. Halley Nagy, LMFT, gives guidance on how to surface unspoken assumptions, have honest check-ins, and build more mutual understanding.
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managing expectations so first again
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identifying what it is you want or you
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need or you're hoping to achieve and
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this could be for yourself this could be
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with a partner with a friend with a
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family member um identifying what you
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both are hoping to achieve and then
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assessing what's realistic and what
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might be a little bit difficult to occur
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um I know that if I'm working at this
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time I probably can't attend something
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at this time as much as I would like to
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does that make sense for my schedule
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could I realistically do that and then
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if you can't practicing that acceptance
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that things might not be able to happen
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that way right now or there must be a
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transition that needs to occur at the
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moment um how do we accept that and be
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okay with that and not to say that
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things can't change in the future or
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that might not be a goal you have but
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this is where you move into the next
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step of coming up with a plan or an idea
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of how that can be achieved in the
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future again we both might want
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something that is not realistic at the
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moment how do we plan together to think
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about how we could make that realistic
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at a future date
