Tag Archives: Relationships

Keep the Peace using Conflict Rules

June 9, 2011 – 10:13 am

Today we have a useful step for resolving frequent conflict in family relationships. Create “rules of engagement” with your partner or family members, and make sure that the rules are clear to everyone. The next time there is a conflict, these rules are to be strictly followed. What are some rules that we recommend? Well, [...]

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How Are You Attached to Your Partner?

June 7, 2011 – 2:17 pm

By nature, our brains are wired to desire attachment to others. We are social creatures; even entering into conflict is a manifestation of our mutual need to “link” or “attach” ourselves to another person. However, the ways we attach to one another depend on many factors, namely, how our mothers/caregivers were attached to us during [...]

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Wounded Children Nation

May 14, 2011 – 10:50 am

When our childhood is attacked by adverse situations in relationship with our parents, the effects can be long lasting in our lives and health. There is no way time only will heal a wounded inner child.

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Fight to Protect the Love in Your Relationship

May 6, 2011 – 9:59 am

When we communicate with one another, we are attempting to make an emotional connection – with our eyes, our body, our words. This is because humans are social beings; our brains are programmed to seek love and empathy from others. So what about getting defensive? Does that go against the natural program of love-seeking? Surprisingly [...]

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Is Conflict our Way of Growing Up?

March 4, 2011 – 11:44 am

Let’s take a different perspective on conflict. Not one that tells the usual story about a victim and a victimizer, but a balanced view including both sides’ perspectives, as two players participating in a shared game:  to get satisfaction of their own needs. Any relationship is an implicit contract in which both individuals promise to [...]

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