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Communicating Through Relationship Conflict - 0370

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🗓️ 15 February 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Joel and Antonia talk about the awareness and strategies useful for communicating through relationship conflict.

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Personality Hacker Podcast.

0:07.0

My name is Joe Mark Witt.

0:08.2

And I'm Antonio Dodge.

0:09.6

Tell me if you've had this experience.

0:11.8

You've been watching a romantic comedy.

0:14.9

And about halfway through, you stop and you think to yourself, wait a second.

0:19.8

This entire plot, this entire story, this entire dynamic between these two people is based

0:26.8

on the fact that they haven't had a basic conversation with each other that would clear

0:32.0

up all of this misunderstanding in this dynamic.

0:36.2

I've had this happen so many times watching romantic comedies where I think there is such

0:39.8

a stupid conversation that needs to happen.

0:42.9

If they could just talk about a basic thing, it's not even a deep issue they have, it's

0:47.7

like a basic misunderstanding.

0:50.2

This entire plot would be moved forward to the next level.

0:54.2

And we have a friend of ours that calls this a dummy plot device.

0:56.9

He's a writer friend and he says that it's the dummy plot.

1:00.0

The dummy plot is when any plot could be solved like the problems of the plot or the

1:04.4

challenges of the plot could be solved with a single conversation.

1:07.4

Yeah.

1:08.4

And so this is very frustrating to me.

1:10.5

And I think this isn't real life.

1:12.7

People in real life and then I stop, you know, that ellipsis, I think, oh, actually this

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