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In the first of a three-part series on how to maintain emotionally intelligent relationships we focus on where things can go wrong and how to put then right.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy. But to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not easy– Aristotle