Stress can interfere with many of your relationships.
But developing your creative problem solving skills can help you handle stress.
By handling stress, you are able to be more confident, less distracted, more focused on other person in the relationship.
But stress affecting your relationships, and indirectly your emotional health, is one bad way that stress affects your overall health.
By distracting your focus, stress interferes with your closest relationships.
Many stress management systems focus only on the effects of stress on your body, not on your emotional health.
Losing a relationship is painful enough, but losing one because you are distracted is doubly painful.
And one obstacle to fighting stress is not creatively thinking of enough possible solutions.
By using creative problem solving to imagine new ways to handle stress, you are better able to eliminate stress.
And you reduce the ability of stress to interfere in relationships.
You are able to make your relationships a priority.
Increasing your creative problem solving skills also makes life in general better.
Imagine how much better your relationships will be when you can think of new things to do or places to go.
Picture how many people at work will ask you for ideas when you can think of many ideas.
Many stress management systems don't even discuss creative problem solving.
By ignoring this key component, other systems fail to add this to the list of options you have to reduce how stress affects your overall health.
Stress attacks all areas of your life.
But many books and programs telling you how to deal with stress offer one solution.
As if one solution fits all areas of your life.
A comprehensive management system allows you to move between solutions to stress.
The solution for relieving the bad health effects of stress on your body may be different from the solution that relieves the problems stress causes with your emotions.
It might be possible to squeeze a component of creative problem solving into your stress management system.
But a management system that has creative problem solving as an integral component is more likely to apply it better and reduce the interference of stress on your relationships.
Your relationships will stronger when stress in your life is handled.