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Methods to Help Your Partner Manage Work Stress

Work stress can be harmful to your mental health due to the mental fatigue and overwhelming heaviness that come with it.

Even if you can handle your work stress well, your partner may not be able to take theirs, and you may need to help your partner manage work stress.

An excellent method of helping them is by engaging in decompression together.

Decompression involves consciously putting aside work-related talk and equipment to focus on only relaxing activities that will ensure the reduction of stress.

Also, you can help your partner with work by giving them gentle, straight insights about their performance or attitude at work.

Your partner's inability to complete a task efficiently may be the reason for the added stress at work, but they may not notice.

Furthermore, listening to them wholeheartedly will help them cope with work stress because it will allow them to talk extensively about the stress.

Ensure that when you are listening to them, you avoid distractions.

Be sure to read on for a comprehensive overview of the methods to help your partner manage work stress:

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Decompress With Them

Decompression involves relaxing the body and mind after a hectic time spent working.

Everyone uses this technique in varying manners, and it can help your partner manage work stress if you spend time with them during decompression.

A great way you can decompress together is to engage in massages.

You can create time to massage each other after a long day at work. Be sure to rub your partner's lower back, neck, shoulders, and head.

You can also decompress with them by taking a walk around the block.

Walking helps to relieve tension and become mindful of hidden thoughts.

While walking with your partner, your presence will also give them a sense of security against all their troubles.

Furthermore, they can decompress by taking a day off to enjoy life and its exciting activities.

If they do this while you are free, it will be fantastic to spend time with them.

Spending time with them on their day off will give them immense fulfillment.

Offer Objective Insights

Dealing with work may get so overwhelming for your partner that you may begin to make minor errors or slips of judgment.

If you can pick up on these and give great advice, you will be able to help your partner manage work stress.

When giving these insights, ensure that they are made positively and gently.

A great way to make sure you are being cool with the advice is to put yourself in their shoes and think of how you would want to hear advice from them.

Also, try to give selfless advice tailored to help them with the situation.

If your suggestion has a mix of selfishness because you want them to satisfy you while satisfying their work requirements, it's best to abstain from giving the advice.

You should also make sure that you ask before you give the advice.

They may not wish for unsolicited advice at that point.

Thus, it will be beneficial to them that you confirm if they desire your objective insights or if they would instead think of a solution on their own.

Listen

Listening to your partner's overwhelming troubles can help you understand their feelings better and build a stronger emotional bond in the relationship.

You can also help your partner manage work stress through listening.

When you are listening to them, make sure to create a mental space where you review their worries and relate them with your struggles.

Connecting with their struggles will help you understand their stress and how best to deal with it.

Similarly, you should listen without bias.

If they discuss work issues that you have a contrary opinion about, try to listen without expressing this different idea.

Instead, you should put aside your thoughts and focus on hearing all they have to say.

You should also remember to be as loving as possible while listening.

Try to listen attentively to them with bodily gestures that show you care about them.

You can even touch them softly to let them know you are following their talk.

Encourage External Friendships and Interests

Maintaining friendships and pursuing personal fun interests can be beneficial to the reduction of general stress.

Hence, you can help your partner manage work stress if you encourage them to spend time with their friends and interests.

An excellent way to encourage such new friendships is to sign your partner up for any community event to meet new people.

At these events, people usually gather to discuss or celebrate a particular subject matter.

You can also influence your partner to pursue a volunteering interest.

If your partner has any passion for specific social or political causes, you may link them to functional societies where they can volunteer and get to meet various friendly people.

Similarly, you may encourage them to extend invitations to friends for movie dates or lunch.

You can even suggest the friends they should take along for shopping or fun places they can visit with their friends.

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Offer Support

Being supportive of a working person can help such a person feel good despite the busy schedule they have to juggle at work.

If you want to help your partner manage work stress efficiently, you may need to offer them support regularly.

You can give them support relating to their work by believing in them and letting them know of your belief in them to ace their tasks and complete their goals.

If you doubt them instead, the work stress will keep accumulating as they have no one to diffuse it.

Furthermore, you should make sure that you use only supportive language when relating to their stress.

And you should also try to avoid comparing your stress with theirs when they tell you about what they have experienced.

Also, it's understandable that it's not easy to give necessary advice at all times due to emotional vulnerability.

Therefore, you can suggest another time to discuss the matter.

Conclusion

In a blissful marriage, there is a provision of thoughtful solutions to each other's problems by both partners.

You can help your partner manage work stress by decompressing with them, listening to them, offering objective insights into their work, encouraging external friendships or interests, and offering support.

Resources

https://zenhabits.net/12-ways-to-decompress-after-high-stress/

https://www.elitedaily.com/p/how-to-give-your-partner-advice-without-sounding-negative-controlling-8432853

https://www.symbis.com/blog/5-ways-good-listener-spouse/

https://hbr.org/2018/08/how-to-help-your-spouse-cope-with-work-stress

https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/adult-health/in-depth/friendships/art-20044860

https://www.marriage.com/advice/relationship/steps-to-becoming-a-supportive-partner/

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Adewale Ayeni-Bepo

I'm a lawyer and content writer committed to helping people learn how to live mentally healthy lives. My pieces focus on identifying the issues and highlighting their solutions. It's my belief that every person can live a mentally healthy life.

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