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🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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There’s a lot of talk in modern dating of red flags, but what if you just disagree early on, and don’t know if this is a sign of doom ahead, or simply a chance to communicate and accept your differences? Maybe you have different ideas about where you want to live or the lifestyle you want . . . or your personalities just occasionally clash.
In this episode, Matthew, Stephen, and Audrey talk about signs of incompatibility, how to have better communication in arguments, and deciding what really matters when pursuing a long-term relationship.
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0:00.0 | This episode is going to be great for anybody who is struggling with the decision of whether to keep going with someone in early dating, who you're finding you're having early disagreements with, you're sensing differences between you. |
0:18.0 | Those differences are making you wonder whether it's really a match, |
0:21.5 | whether you're really compatible. Are you by continuing with this person sewing the seeds for |
0:26.3 | future regret and heartbreak and wasted time? Or are you by letting go of this person being too |
0:35.0 | picky and too demanding and not making space for the differences between you and this person being too picky and too demanding and not making space for the differences between |
0:40.3 | you and this person. This episode explores all of that territory and more. We have an amazing |
0:45.8 | caller who calls in to ask about this. We have another segment of Steve's sleeves and a whole bunch |
0:53.2 | more. I think you're really going to enjoy this one. |
0:55.3 | If you're not sure whether someone you're disagreement with the person that they were dating. |
1:25.1 | It was quite early stages, I believe, it was only like a few weeks |
1:27.8 | into them dating each other, but they kept butting heads on the same kind of subject, and they |
1:34.2 | kept kind of having conflict around it. And when she came to us, she said, is this a compatibility |
1:40.6 | issue? Or is it something that we can communicate and work through? Like, when is it something that we can communicate and work through like when is it |
1:47.0 | something that we absolutely should just go like this isn't going to work and I need to walk away |
1:51.8 | from this or when is it just normal in the early stages to have a disagreement like that I remember |
1:58.0 | her question because she was saying that they would argue for hours on end |
2:02.5 | in a disagreement. Oh, that's a lot. Yeah, she was like, we butt heads on something and then we end up in like a |
2:08.2 | five hour, you know, argument. What's the longest argument you've ever had? Oh, it'd be multiple |
2:14.2 | days for sure. I've had one or two, like, volatile relationships. |
2:20.6 | That's just like the argument drag on for... |
2:22.8 | It was, yeah, I, you know, I had someone that, like, when we fought, we fought really badly. |
2:30.2 | You know, I don't think I've ever had a relationship where we didn't have disagreements, but in this particular relationship, we fought in a very kind of toxic way. |
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