Fighting Versus Solving: Using Conflict
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Do you find yourself fighting and fighting, but never making progress? Maybe you even look back and make the painful discovery: you are just repeating the same argument.
If so, you aren’t using conflict to get anywhere. You are just trying to win.
Conflict is better used when it moves you toward progress. It can serve to solve.
Or it can serve to wound.
Many times, I have heard the same statement: “I don’t want to argue about this anymore,” “I don’t want to fight anymore.” Both come from a realization that nothing is happening in the fight. No solution, no progress. Nothing but hurtful conflict.
Sound familiar?
Unfortunately, if a couple can’t make the shift, the wounds and hurts add up. Until one or the other (or both) call it quits. They give up, tired of the conflict. Some leave. Others stay, but refuse to communicate.
Either way, the connection suffers.
It doesn’t have to be that way. Conflict can serve to move you toward a better relationship. But only when you use it to solve.
Listen to the audio training below to learn how.
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