How to STOP Arguments and Fights from Killing Your Relationship (Video)
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Endless fights, arguments, and snipes late into the night…
You’ve seen it time and time again. Everything is going great, you and your partner love each other dearly, and your relationship couldn’t be better. Then, it strikes without warning. Someone says something, the other responds, and it’s on!
What appears to be a simple misunderstanding escalates into an argument, a fight, and someone ends up sleeping on the couch. Worse yet, one of you starts throwing things, then storms out of the house. Remember the frustration, the anger, the resentment?
Remember how puffed up your ego got? "Yeah, so there!" OK, clearly that didn’t go as planned. And you can bet nobody gained anything from that exchange.
What happened? How did a simple question turn into a screaming match?
In your mind, the other person "just doesn’t get it". But here’s the problem - in their mind, YOU "just don’t get it".
And what’s even WORSE is having ANY kind of emotional discussion (read: argument) by phone or email. NEVER do that if you can avoid it.
So how can this possibly be resolved without endless fighting and eventually maybe even breaking up?
When a "discussion" escalates into an argument, all sense and reason seems to leave the building. At that point, it’s all EGO, and going downhill hard. Everybody is getting puffed up trying to one-up the other person by saying something just a little more hurtful in response to what they just heard last. A guaranteed path to achieving nothing useful.
Could you agree to disagree?
Imagine…
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