Fighting is not compulsory – first aid for couples conflicts
Do you have painful repeating habitual fights in your relationship? Do you have eruptions you can’t control, walk-outs that scare you to death, or repeating fights about the same things over and over and over … and over and over? In an earlier post I wrote about the importance of If It Doesn’t Work, Do Something DIFFERENT. This present post is a few all-purpose first-aid measures you can do to interrupt those stale, dead, painful repeating cycles. Then you can make room for listening, understanding, intimate closeness. Many of the couples tell me they find these rather enlightening: Oh! We don’t have to fight!
You can do any one of these on its own, or two, or three, or all four, whatever works.
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