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Dr. Willard Harley's 10 Emotional Needs

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1. Admiration Respecting, valuing and appreciating you clearly and often.

2. Physical Attractiveness Keeping physically fit with diet and exercise, wearing hair and clothing in a way that you find attractive and tasteful.

3. Sexual fulfilment Sexual experience that brings out a predictably enjoyable sexual response in both of you that is frequent enough for both of you.

4. Domestic support Creation of a home environment for you that offers a refuge from the stresses of life; management of the home and care of the children—if any are at home—including but not limited to cooking meals, washing dishes, washing and ironing clothes, and house cleaning.

5. Recreational Companionship Developing interest in your favourite recreational activities, learning to be proficient in them, and joining you in those activities.

6. Conversation Talking about events of the day, personal feelings, and plans for the future; showing interest in your favourite topics of conversation; balancing conversation; using it to inform, investigate, and understand you; and giving you undivided attention.

7. Affection The expression of love in words, cards, gifts, hugs, kisses, and courtesies; creating an environment that clearly and repeatedly expresses love).

8. Financial Support The provision of financial resources to house, feed, and clothe your family at a standard of living acceptable to you, but avoiding travel and working hours that are unacceptable to you.

9. Family Commitment Scheduling sufficient time and energy for the moral and educational development of your children; reading to them, taking them on frequent outings, developing the skill in appropriate child-training methods and discussing those methods with you; avoiding any child-training methods or disciplinary action that does not have your enthusiastic support.

10. Honesty & Openness Revealing positive and negative feelings, events of the past, daily events and schedule, plans for the future; not leaving a false impression; answering questions truthfully and completely.

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