Conflict In Marriage

This week in my Family Relations class, we talked about conflict. I want to focus on conflict in marriage. Sometimes there is just going to be fights between spouses. In the book Marriage and Family the Quest for Intimacy, it talks about how there are eight principles that couples in happy marriages use to engage in constructive conflict. They are:maintain your perspective, develop tension outlets, avoid festering resentment, be sensitive to timing, communicate without ceasing, be flexible and willing to compromise, use conflict to attack the problem and not your spouse, and keep loving while you are fighting. These principles can help make the marital conflict is good fighting rather than destructive fighting.