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Conflict Management

All couples experience conflict, but you can learn how manage conflict and form compromises in a healthy, productive way.

What Healthy Couples Know About Handling Conflict

Ellie Lisitsa

Learn how to implicitly communicate with your partner ...

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Rescuing Your Relationship from Stress

Arguments and Self-Care

Ellie Lisitsa

By engaging in self-care, we can create the conditions necessary work out conflict and arguments with family and friends. ...

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Making Sure Emotional Flooding Doesn’t Capsize Your Relationship

Ellie Lisitsa

Read how emotional flooding ignites your fight-or-flight mode and ways to avoid this so you don't derail your conflict management. ...

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How to Have A Stress-Reducing Conversation

Ellie Lisitsa

Easy, straightforward instructions for having a stress-reducing conversation. ...

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Self Soothing Weekend Homework

How to Practice Self-Soothing

Ellie Lisitsa

Remember: the ability to self-soothe is one of the most important skills you can learn. Practicing it can help you not ...

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Moving Forward

Manage Conflict: Moving Forward

Ellie Lisitsa

The real predictor of a relationship’s failure is a couple’s inability to manage conflict in a healthy manner and to move ...

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Triggers

Manage Conflict: Identifying Your Triggers

Ellie Lisitsa

Working on understanding each other’s triggers is one of the most important things that you can do to avoid hurting one ...

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The Aftermath of a Fight

Manage Conflict: The Aftermath of a Fight

Ellie Lisitsa

When you make repair attempts early, you can salvage the point of the conversation and create a more productive and positive ...

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Homework Assignment: Compromise

Ellie Lisitsa

Many couples fail to compromise on issues because they go about trying to compromise in the wrong way. ...

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The Art of Compromise

Manage Conflict: The Art of Compromise

Ellie Lisitsa

We’ve all been in the middle of an argument that we know we cannot win, understanding that our frustration has overwhelmed ...

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Manage Conflict The Six Skills

Six Tips for the Six Skills of Managing Conflict

Ellie Lisitsa

Sometimes you need to build up to having effective communication in your partnership. Here are the smalls steps it takes to ...

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5 Rules for Having a Constructive Conflict Conversation about Money

Activities to Help You Manage Conflict

Ellie Lisitsa

Conflict is inevitable, but these tips serve as a jumping off point to managing it well. ...

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