Hello, welcome to the Excel Stillmore podcast.

I am your host, Chris Emerson, and we are here to talk about tips and strategies that you can employ to deepen your faith, improve your relationships, and just get the most out of your life.

Thank you for joining. Let's get started.

Okay, so today's topic is conflict resolution. It's really pursuing that idea of how do you

mend a relationship where there has been division? Are there people in your life that

sometimes you just can't get on the same page with? It's like you just see things so differently

that it always ends up driving you apart. I think most of us understand what that's like.

All we want to do is start getting on the same page, and sometimes it seems like we're reading from entirely different books, with like different languages and everything.

And that can be very frustrating, and a lot of times people just give up.

We're never going to see things the same way.

We're never going to make progress.

You see this in religion sometimes.

You go to this church, I go to that

church. There's just no way we're ever going to be able to figure this out. You see it in politics

all the time. You hold that view. I hold this view. I don't see any way we're ever going to

agree. Here's the thing. We don't want to give up on all of those relationships, mainly because a lot of those people are people who are close to us.

You just don't have the option to take somebody that you spend time with every day and say, you know what, we never see things the same way, let's never talk again.

That's not reasonable in most cases. In fact, as you'll see today, we want to talk about marriage.

One of the most important relationships to be together, unified, working in the same direction,

is in marriage.

I mean, that has impact on their relationship, on their children, on their church, their friends, and everyone.

And we see far too often husbands and wives who just give up on this. We've tried to work it out.

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