Things EVERY couple fights really mean – What’s REALLY underneath the surface of that fight you’re having. Stop fighting about money, sex, and the children. I have seen many couples in therapy over the 14 years I have worked as a Marriage & Family Therapist. I found that many couples have problems on the surface and they need to address the problems underneath the surface.
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After being in a relationship, it’s easy to pick on your partner’s faults and blame one another if the relationship is going south.
Over the past four years, I have been trained in using The Gottman Method for Couples. This is a well-researched method that the Gottman’s have done over four decades of research in working with couples.
They have developed a lot of great tools to help with communication and building the friendship in the relationship. The research also found that a good friendship is crucial in a relationship. This is reported by, both men and women.
One of my favorite tools that they have that helps with communication is Dreams Within Conflict. This helps the couple have a guided conversation that helps build understanding in the relationship.
One person is the speaker and one is the listener. The speaker is the dream speaker and the listener is the dream catcher. It’s easy to want to fix or solve the problem.
The purpose of this exercise is not to argue for your point of view, the point is to build understanding. The research has found that 69 percent of problems in a relationship aren’t solvable.
What does this mean? It means that you want to learn to have a dialogue about your problems that isn’t painful.
As I mentioned earlier, stop fighting about money, sex, and the children. These are the problems on the surface. Start creating understanding in the relationship.
Couples who understand one another are more likely to stay together and have a reasonably happy relationship. This is what we all want. This will also let you know that your partner has your back no matter what.
Here are three things that are underneath the surface fight:
1. “You don’t really get me.”
More than anything, we want our partner to get us. This is core in a relationship. Tell your partner what you appreciate and like about them. This will help create safety in the relationship and make it easier to talk about the difficult stuff.
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