How To Stop Having Long Ass Fights
No More Staying Up All Night Talking In Circles
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Conflict is an important part of healthy relationships, and you'll never hear me say that you should stuff your feelings or avoid fighting.
But long, drawn out fights help no one and hurt everyone. They create an illusion of productivity, so you think that you're getting somewhere, but you're actually reinforcing bad habits, draining the relationship of its emotional lifeblood, and chasing down secondary problems that block you from solving the problem you're fighting about in the first place.
Yikes.
If you're caught all-too-often in long fights that go round and round, I want to help you do better.
So today: how to stop having long ass fights. No, this post won't solve every conflict problem in your relationship, but it will give you a clear plan for reducing conflict duration without compromising on resolution.
Let's dive right in.