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Want to help your partner stress less? Listen from the heart

A couple talks in a hallway near a window. When we feel supported, we feel less stress. But sometimes we think we are being supportive of a romantic partner and we're not. Who hasn't experienced the self-satisfaction of feeling like we're 'helping' only to find we've only made the situation worse. Wake Forest University professor Jennifer Priem studies dating relationships and explores the connection between supportive conversations and physiological signs of stress reduction.

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