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Love Life with Matthew Hussey

3 Rules to “Fight Fair” With Someone You Love

Love Life with Matthew Hussey

Matthew Hussey

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.82.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2016

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

It’s inevitable: Everyone argues with his or her partner from time to time. But we have to be careful; Often, the people we love the most are the ones we end up hurting the most with our words. In today’s episode of LOVE Life, I’m giving you my 3 rules to fight fair in an argument to protect your relationship from the irreversible damage caused by the top 3 miscommunication mistakes. (#1 might surprise you!)

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0:00.0

Matthew Hussey here with Love Life. Have you ever wondered whether you should date more

0:06.5

than one guy at a time? Every dating expert seems to have a different opinion on this.

0:12.2

But what did Guy has really think about a woman who keeps her options open? Well I'll tell

0:17.4

you how to get the answer at the end of the show. First, let's get into today's episode.

0:22.8

Today we are talking about the three things that you have to always remember when you're having

0:32.2

an argument. The really sad and tragic part about arguments is it's the people that we actually

0:37.5

care about the most that we end up hurting the most. I'm doing damage too and sometimes that

0:43.1

damage lasts a very long time and is extremely difficult to reverse. So I have a couple of tips

0:50.3

that I want to give you. And by the way, if you have a pen and paper, if you have a pen and paper

0:53.3

anywhere in this show, write stuff down. There's cliched and cheesy as it sounds, a dull pencil is

0:59.9

a better, there's better than a sharp mind. If you can write it down, you're going to remember this

1:03.9

stuff. So the first one is diffuse the situation quickly. Now there's a kind of idea in arguments

1:12.3

that sometimes you need to take time. Sometimes you need to take time away. You need to walk away

1:16.7

and you need to go into a different room or you need to leave for a day or two and then come back

1:20.4

and revisit the argument. Now I think in some cases that allows people to not vent in an extremely

1:27.6

hypersensitive way and for that reason can be the lesser of two evils. I do however think that if

1:34.4

it's a tall possible for you to do so, diffuse it now. That should always be your motto. How do I

1:41.0

diffuse this now instead of walking away? Diffusing it quickly, diffusing it now allows you to move past

1:48.1

the situation. And let me give you an example of this. I think a very common thing that happens in

1:52.9

couples is they're walking down the street and someone gets kind of offended because they catch

1:57.2

their partner looking at someone else for too long. Now of course what happens in this situation?

2:02.4

Well firstly they don't speak up. So now they go the whole day being irritable because they remember

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