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chance of finding expression during emotional crisis.
For these reasons, the above strategies need to be tried
out and rehearsed during encounters that are not stressful,
as well as in the heat of battle, if they are to have a
chance to become an acquired first response (or at least
a not-too-belated second response) in the repertoire of
the emotional circuitry. In essence, these antidotes to
marital disintegration are a small remedial education in
emotional intelligence.