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How to End Pandemic Fights with Your Partner

By Stephen Marche — 2020

Couples’ fights in lockdown are often about the unremitting intensity of togetherness. The sooner you de-escalate a fight, the sooner you can begin working on real solutions.

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Trust Issues: Why Is It So Hard for Some People to Trust?

It’s become more and more difficult to remain vulnerable, trusting, and open to life in this era of uncertainty, global upheaval, divorce, and disrupted family life.

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Joyce Catlett
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Everyday Diplomacy

Your idea of a great Sunday is to rise with the sun for a long run. Your partner, however, has other ideas. His notion of a proper Sunday involves sleeping late and enjoying a leisurely brunch over the Sunday paper.

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Joseph Hart
2007
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According to Oprah, All Your Arguments Come Down to These 3 Questions

If the answers are no, there’s likely going to be a problem.

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Melanie Curtin
2018
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Defending Against ‘Predatory Listening’

My relative had asked for my opinion, but when I gave it, he launched into what sounded like a well-rehearsed argument, taking issue with each thing I had said and critiquing my character. I felt like I’d walked into a trap.

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Oren Jay Sofer
2021
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10 Communication Problems and Mistakes We All Make

Communication problems are the number one reason couples split up, with 65% of couples citing this issue as the primary cause of divorce, according to a 2013 survey.

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GoodTherapy Staff
2015
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I’m Not O.K., You’re Not O.K.—And That’s O.K.

When we read the news, we might find ourselves overwhelmed with “non-OK-ness,” but Sylvia Boorstein says there are ways we can work with that feeling.

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Sylvia Boorstein
2018
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Beyond Good and Evil

It sounds simple, yet it’s more than a technique for resolving conflict. It’s a different way of understanding human motivation and behavior.

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D. Killian
2003
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Why It’s Important to Fight Fairly: An Interview with Stan Tatkin and Tracey Boldemann-Tatkin

Learning to fight fairly is key to preserving goodwill in all our relationships, from personal to public. Stan Tatkin and his partner Tracey Boldemann-Tatkin, codevelopers of the Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy, say the key lies in staying connected even as you express your unhappiness.

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Stan Tatkin, Tracey Boldemann-Tatkin
2017
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The No. 1 Rule Most Couples Ignore While Arguing

How couples fight is just as important as how they love, and it's one of the most predictive factors for a successful relationship. All couples have conflict and will cause each other distress from time to time.

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Stan Tatkin, Caroline Muggia
2018
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Why Couples Fight: Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt

We think most couples wait too long to get help, so we want to bring the simple practices of a conscious partnership into the mainstream so people know how to be in a marriage before they enter one.

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Harville Hendrix, Helen LaKelly Hunt
2012
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