CHRISSY COLEY: How to communicate effectively. How to really listen to someone else and what their thoughts and feelings are but also how to articulate what you feel and what you think and what your preferences are.

EMMA KAY: Hi.

EMMA'S BOYFRIEND: Hey. How are you doing?

EMMA KAY: Good.

EMMA'S BOYFRIEND: Good, just working on homework?

EMMA KAY: Yeah. It's kinda boring but I have to get it done.

EMMA'S BOYFRIEND: Want to do anything later?

EMMA KAY: Um, yeah. We've been together for almost two and 1/2 years. So we've been together since I was 16. He's 100% there for me. He completely supports everything that I'm doing.

VANESSA BAUTISTA: My relationship gets in the way a lot. 'Cause like just little conflicts here and there. It's like me just building up anger and like tension from like all the stress.

EMMA KAY: Both of us know that our education and our careers are really you know the set things that are going to be in our lives in the future. You know, we're hoping that we're going to be together for the rest of our lives right now. But you know, there's still that chance that we're not. And so why sacrifice something that is going to be there 100% of the time for something that could possibly end?

CHRISSY COLEY: It may be a compromise or may be finding that win-win situation. And that's what we hope, that they are able to have an authentic relationship, that they are able to share what they're thinking and how they're feeling, to be able to share their values and what their goals are, and to be able to really listen intently to the other person as well. So that everyone can come to the table respectfully and also come away feeling that they've been listened to and that they matter and that they're both getting of what they need to out of that relationship, the support that they need and being able to learn and grow and to achieve their goals.