How individuals or couples function in a relationship determines satisfaction and enjoyment. Disagreements and arguments do not mean that a relationship is in trouble but can be an opportunity for expressing feelings and thoughts as well as discovering solutions to what is troubling each person.
It’s critically important to realize that registering a difference of opinion or expressing a simple complaint is miles apart from criticizing and attacking another’s character and integrity. Complaining can become habitual and is indicative of unhappiness with oneself, with another person or the relationship.
Asking an intimate other for suggestions on how to solve a problem is a strategy for remaining calm. Being willing to listen and consider solutions that vary from your own ideas is absolutely necessary. Proverbs 15:18 offers hope: “Hot tempered people stir up dissension, but patient people calm quarrels.” It is possible to be patient with each other.
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Slowness
to anger makes for deep understanding; a quick-tempered person stockpiles
stupidity.
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