Learn how to do a SWOT analysis on your relationship, and find out how it goes!
They say that every marriage (or relationship) is a business. Yes, we know that it sounds very cold and that it leaves aside or puts in the background what for some of us is the most important thing: love, passion, fun. but the sad reality is that when the couple begins to build a future together, you have to have a little business vision.
Think that like a company, your love relationship can succeed or fail, prosper and bring well-being to many people apart from you or sink and take the happiness of many to the bottom of the ocean, that’s why it is very important that you make a stop along the way in your relationship with a SWOT analysis (Weaknesses, Opportunities, Strengths, Threats), so you can prevent a crisis or identify how to get back on track if things are not going as planned.
Don’t feel guilty when your partner’s eyes water while you present the results of your SWOT analysis, tell him with love that you simply want the best for both of you. Make it clear that your idea is not to judge him, but stop wasting energy on nonsense and focus on what’s important. The psychologist Mª Del Carmen González Rivas explains in superwoman each of the elements of the DOFA:
Weaknesses: They are the fragile aspects in a relationship, for example, the lack of time to share, problems in intimacy, etc.
Opportunities: In the couple, it can be those moments that can be used to see how our relationship is going, for example, when we have time to be alone, without children or other people and we can chat about ourselves.
Strengths: They are the aspects that benefit our relationship, for example, what we most enjoy doing together, the things we have in common, etc.
Threats: They are factors that precipitate greater instability in the couple, for example, lack of communication, loss of trust in the other, etc.
Make a list with each of these categories and think what you can do to minimize threats and weaknesses and take advantage of strengths and opportunities. You, as the leader of DOFA, should be the one to carry out both the analysis and the implementation. You can get your partner involved, of course, but without forcing him, you don’t want to run him off.
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