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NEWS | Sept. 7, 2016

LINKS class explores couples’ relationships

Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph Public Affairs

Helping married couples to reconnect in their relationship is the focus of a class by the 359th Medical Operations Squadron Mental Health Flight that begins Tuesday at the Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph Human Performance Resource Center in building 999.

The Life Skills class, “Lasting Intimacy Through Nurturing Knowledge and Skills,” or LINKs, will be facilitated by Gina Ramirez, 359th MDOS Mental Health Flight outreach resiliency coordinator, in a series of sessions Tuesday and Sept. 15, 20, 22, 27 and 29 at the HPRC. Each class session is from 1:30-3:30 p.m. and is open to all married couples that include active-duty members, military family members or Department of Defense cardholders.

Class discussions will be based on the Relationship Attachment Model found at www.lovethinks.com, a website that provides resources for personal growth and the development and maintenance of healthy relationships, said Ramirez. The model includes five love links – knowledge, trust, reliance, commitment and sexual touch.

“LINKS is about cultivating a belief in couples being relationship managers who put continued effort in building the closeness and intimacy of their marriage,” Ramirez said.

Topics covered in the class include understanding the link of trust, learning ways to keep a good trust picture, respecting and handling conflicts, appreciation of the range of emotional responses, learning the value of a “huddle,” meeting the needs of your spouse, how mutual fulfillment will strengthen the bond of marriage, how couples can take inventory of their marriage and the real meaning of commitment.

Ramirez said couples who take the class will have a better understanding of how they can reconnect by learning the Relationship Attachment Model and the bonds of closeness and intimacy, knowing the relationship manager role, developing an understanding of what makes a relationship safe, and learning “relationship maintenance” and healthy patterns of communication.

“Healthy communication is a means to the end of developing closeness and intimacy to deeply knowing each other,” she said. “Reconnecting with your partner can create lasting intimacy and build a stronger bond.”

To register for the class, call 652-2448.