RSU 021: Caring Enough To Embrace Conflict

This episode of The Relationship Success University Podcast is about caring enough to embrace conflict. Join us as we uncover ways to minimize conflict in your relationship that can be implemented today.

One of the greatest predictors of divorce is the habitual avoidance of conflict.

Successful couples know how to contain their disagreements – how to keep them from spilling over and contaminating the rest of their relationship.

Couples need to know what the research has found: that every happy, successful couple has approximately ten areas of "incompatibility" or disagreement that they will never resolve. Instead, the successful couples learn how to manage the disagreements and live life "around" them – to love in spite of their areas of difference, and to at least develop understanding and empathy for their partner's positions.

One thing is certain, there will be conflict. A marriage relationship places two sinful people in a close relationship and asks them to do what is unnatural (which is why your mind must be transformed) and that is to operate in a selfless manner when your natural state is to be selfish.

Disagreements are not necessarily bad. Disagreements handled properly offer a great opportunity for growth.