10 Tips on How to Read Your Partner’s Body Language

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How they behave during an argument

Partners in happier relationships show different body language during conflicts and heated arguments compared to partners in unhappy relationships. You want to show you’re listening and keeping your partner calm during such heated arguments.

Also, you want to look out for signs of aggression, disapproval, and even inattention that might include bare teeth, tightly crossed arms, flared nostrils, finger jabbing at your chest, a body turned away from you, a crinkled nose, and eyes darting around the room.

13 responses

  1. Great information. However, one thing was ignored or missed probably because the time of when this was written, but I don’t think cell phone usage should be ignored.

    1. Yes, cell phone usage is absolutely a part of body language.

      At best, it’s simply due to screen addiction.

      At worst, it means the person’s phone content is more interesting and important to them than their partner, and/or it’s their escape from a partner they’re no longer interested in or feel connected to for whatever their reasons are.

    2. It absolutely DOES!! If someone spends all their time looking at the phone while with you, they’re OBVIOUSLY not with you!!!

  2. Wake up Dave, cell phone usage has everything to do with body language. These devices have
    taken control of this generation affecting every part your life. Any person who ignores the spouse
    and family while wasting time on the phone is a fool.

  3. I agree with Sherri. When somebody is on their cell they are saying the other person is not important that the phone is more important. First off that in itself is a rude habit, end of story…

    1. Thank you!! You are validating my frustration. My husband ignores me and gets angry when I ask him at 2:30 am to turn it off!

  4. Cell phones are a part of “body language”? Odd. What part of the body is the phone? Should I make sure the physician examines my phone as a part of my next annual physicals?

    1. “Objects” (like cell phones) can become a crucial part of body language and should be ignored…especially if your partner is hurling one at you!

  5. Cell phone usage while ignoring a person is rude and inconsiderate and impolite. It is about etiquette not body language.

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