Manage Conflict: Moving Forward
The real predictor of a relationship’s failure is a couple’s inability to manage conflict in a healthy manner and to move forward.
Manage Conflict: Identifying Your Triggers
Working on understanding each other’s triggers is one of the most important things that you can do to avoid hurting one another.
Manage Conflict: The Aftermath of a Fight
When you make repair attempts early, you can salvage the point of the conversation and create a more productive and positive outcome.
Manage Conflict: The Art of Compromise
We’ve all been in the middle of an argument that we know we cannot win, understanding that our frustration has overwhelmed all sense of perspective.
Manage Conflict: Repair and De-Escalate
Here are a few examples of phrases that you can use to help repair and de-escalate when conversations get tense.
Manage Conflict: Using Compromise as an Opportunity to Build Intimacy
Dr. Gottman found that compromise is essential to managing conflict in relationships.
Six Tips for the Six Skills of Managing Conflict
Sometimes you need to build up to having effective communication in your partnership. Here are the smalls steps it takes to master conflict management.
The Positive Perspective: More on the 5:1 Ratio
Watch this video of Dr. John Gottman explaining the 5:1 ratio.
The Sound Relationship House: The Positive Perspective
A fundamental principle of maintaining The Positive Perspective in your relationship is to let your partner influence you.
The Sound Relationship House: Turn Towards Instead of Away
Playful bids and enthusiastic efforts to turn towards each other result in heightened levels of positivity during conflict discussions.
Love Quiz: Fondness and Admiration
If life chipped away at your fondness and admiration for each other, the route to bringing them back begins with realizing how valuable they are.
The Sound Relationship House: Build Love Maps
Love Maps help you develop greater personal insight and a more detailed understanding of each other’s life and world.