Interpersonal effectiveness skills help you build new relationships, strengthen current ones, and deal with conflict situations. They allow you to effectively ask for what you want and refuse or say NO to unwanted requests. They are the behaviors and actions needed to communicate assertively, set boundaries, resolve conflicts, and deepen relationships. They are helpful in families, workplaces, with friends, and even strangers. Skills are the magic, and it just happens that M. Linehan put this magic together for us.

So ... let's use them.