69: Why We Fight The Ones We Love

Relationship Advice

Colter Bloxom

Relationships, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2016

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode we discuss relationship advice topics that include: How conflict in a relationship manifests in different ways. Why we fight in relationships and how to prevent it. Creating a mission statement for your relationship. Moving away from the fight or flight mindset. The importance of naming your feelings. And much more! Erik Newton is a former family law attorney who describes himself as someone who has been through a thousand divorces and still believes in love. Erik has a unique, real-world comprehension of what makes one marriage thrive and another fall apart. Ultimately, his calling to help couples build healthy relationships superseded his legal career, and he is now podcasting and publishing an online magazine about relationships that you can find at www.together.guide I Do Podcast is also supported by: Audible: Use the link below, and sign up for a free 30-day trial and one free audiobook download! You will have to enter your CC information, but you can just cancel the trial at the end of the month if you don’t like it and not pay a dime. There are a ton of great relationship audiobooks on Audible.com. Consider downloading The 5 Love Languages for your free download. If you haven’t already subscribed to I Do Podcast and left us a review on iTunes, that helps us a ton as well Thanks! – Chase and Sarah Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're going to. Take me to the place in the middle of the sun. What's going on love tribe?
0:27.0	What's going on love tribe?
0:29.0	Welcome to ID Podcast.
0:31.0	If you've listened to us before, welcome back and if you are new here,
0:35.5	thank you so much for joining us. Here at ID Podcast, we interview the world's
0:40.5	leading relationship, marriage, dating, and self-help experts.
0:45.2	We're here to help give you the tools to succeed.
0:48.6	On today's show we welcome Eric Newton and Eric has a website together dot guide he also has a
0:56.1	podcast in a magazine that's all about helping people improve their
1:00.2	relationships and Eric has a really unique perspective as a
1:04.0	former family law attorney and he describes himself as an attorney who's gone
1:09.9	through a thousand divorces and still believes in love so he has a really unique
1:14.6	perspective that he's bringing to his his new work and helping people improve
1:19.7	their relationships and he brought a lot of great information to today's show.
1:25.0	We kind of talked about conflict and why we fight with the ones we love and
1:30.5	he told a really neat story in the middle of the podcast
1:34.4	about a couple he interviewed who had this really cool tool.
1:38.8	They had a mission statement for their relationship. And every morning they read that mission statement to each other so
1:46.2	what it kind of did is just allowed them to get on the same page and check in with their
1:51.6	partner and to remember that no matter what was going on in the relationship
1:55.6	they have sort of a reason for being together and working towards something bigger
2:01.8	and better than just themselves as individuals.
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