5 Major Killers That Threaten Your Relationship Every Day

5. Fighting.

Also known as “conflict management.” I abhor that term. It feels like a productivity group at some company concocted that expression amid a meeting to generate new ideas. I like additional rational terms that don’t try and whitewash or sweeten up what is truly happening. We are battling, contending, getting guarded, assaulting, moping, boiling over, stone-walling, coercing, and so on.

Fighting is a dreadful business and no one likes losing. As a man I was taught to win no matter what and never admit defeat. This overflowed into relationships when I was more youthful. It was bad to the point that I didn’t apologize to a lady until I was in my mid-thirties, and I naerly gagged the first time when I did.

Once more, unless you saw your parent battle in a productive way, you haven’t the faintest idea how to fight successfully. What’s more, in the event that you do have a piece of information, your partner may not.

Figuring out how to fight successfully is frequently learned, on the off chance that it is learned at all, by experimentation after some time or by perusing a book on communicatiton or going to therapy. Tragic however genuine.