Resolve Your Differences: Seven Steps for Dealing With Conflict in Your Relationship

If your arguments go round in circles or you’ve stopped even bothering to try, find out how to sort out your problems – without prompting more rows.

What is the best predictor of a long and happy relationship? Coming from similar backgrounds? Common interests, ambitions and attitudes? A healthy sex life? Support from family and friends? All of these are useful but ultimately not decisive. It doesn’t matter how many problems a couple face, or how difficult, the best predictor for happiness is how well they are handled. A good argument is the most intimate thing that you can have with your partner.

Three ways of communicating

Whether you’re in a high conflict relationship (where things can quickly spin out of control) or a low conflict relationship (where important things are only hinted at but don’t really come up to the surface), I explain how to move to the middle and show how to become assertive.

Learn this vital information

• What really drives petty squabbles
• Why avoiding arguments stores up long-term problems
• The tools to have productive disagreements
• How to save the situation