A Man's Guide To Leading Through Conflict
ManTalks Podcast
Connor Beaton
4.8 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 1 May 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Talking points: conflict, relationships
You're going to get into arguments. There will be differences of opinion. But what if those were gateways to something more? Today, the latest in the Man's Guide series.
(00:00:00) - Choose someone you’re willing to conflict with, and be someone she’s willing to conflict with, too.
(00:04:11) - Your nervous system sets the tone.
(00:07:41) - You need rules of engagement.
(00:10:45) - Stop trying to “fix” her emotions.
(00:15:25) - Don’t fall for The Trap. Connect instead.
(00:18:47) - Lead the repair.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, team, welcome back to the man talk show. |
| 0:09.3 | Connor Beaton here. |
| 0:10.3 | Today we're going to be talking about how to lead through conflict in your relationship. |
| 0:15.6 | Now, this is specifically a guide for men. |
| 0:18.4 | And if you are interested, I also have a free guide for you that is in the |
| 0:23.5 | description below called How to Lead in Relationship, Man's Guide to Leading in a Relationship. So |
| 0:29.4 | check that out. You can click on that as a free resource for you. And tons of guys have found |
| 0:34.4 | that to be very valuable. So let's dive in. The first thing that I want to say, |
| 0:38.5 | I've said this time and time again, I'll say it in case you are new, because I know that 74% |
| 0:42.9 | of you are not subscribed, so maybe get on that, whether you're on Spotify or YouTube. But I'll |
| 0:49.1 | say this again and again. Choose a woman that you are willing to do conflict with. Choose a partner, whether you're |
| 0:57.7 | listening to this as a man or a woman, choose a person that you are wanting or willing to do |
| 1:03.6 | conflict with. I dated too many women that I didn't trust. And when conflict happened, |
| 1:10.1 | I just kind of checked out because I was like, |
| 1:11.4 | I don't trust you. I don't trust that you're interested. You have my best interest, the relationship's best |
| 1:16.2 | interest in mind. I also dated women that I didn't respect. And so when conflict happened, I would just |
| 1:21.6 | disengage or, you know, I wouldn't act in a way that was how I wanted to be aligned with my own values or ethics. |
| 1:29.4 | And then I also dated women that I didn't want to stand up to because I didn't want to hurt |
| 1:33.9 | them and I didn't want to cause them any pain. And all of these caused all kinds of issues. |
| 1:39.6 | And so ideally, you know, leading yourself in a relationship and being able to lead in conflict in any |
| 1:46.3 | capacity, which I'm going to share four or five steps here that you can take with you that I have |
| 1:50.8 | seen to work really, really well for every single man. But ideally, you are with somebody |
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