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How to Interrupt the Pattern on Repetitive Arguments
You know what types of arguments or disagreements you and your partner have on a regular basis. You can almost see the storm brewing a mile away once it starts to play out (again), but it seems inevitable. It can leave you both feeling shutdown and hopeless. What do you do when your ingrained ‘differences in perspective’ lead to an all out thrown down fight? And even more so: what can you do when that argument is on repeat in your relationship?
Common Issues Couples Fight Over Series: Part 5
It seems like every one of the posts in this series (Things Couples Fight Over) keeps coming back to one thing: our culture. Roles and responsibilities of a husband and wife are drastically shifted from what they were 100 years ago. While many of these changes are obviously positive and every couple is different, some cultural expectations put unnecessary subconscious pressure on us. We should not be looking to our culture as a healthy model for what marriage should look like. If the world was doing it right, there would be far more happy longterm marriages.
Common Issues Couples Fight Over Series: Part 4
Intimacy and/or sex are almost always included in the top 3 things couples fight about the most. Perhaps this is because we were never really taught how to navigate such delicate matters…intimacy is, afterall, a very intimate topic to talk discuss!
Over the years, many couples tend to for get about the importance of intimacy and take it for granted. As life gets in the way of dating, intimacy is not prioritized and becomes non-existent. This is how once loving, married couples turn into roommates who are coexisting.
