Hello everyone and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the Bible teaching ministry that's here to encourage and inspire you every day.

And today we're continuing our series called Awesome Relationships.

In it, Rick Warren shares practical ways to help you take your relationships with family, friends,

coworkers, and even God, from ordinary to extraordinary.

And this is a series you don't want to miss.

All right, so let's get to Rick with part two of a message called Fighting for an Awesome

Family.

Second skill you have to learn in the family is how to handle conflict.

And if you don't learn how to handle conflict in your marriage or in your family,

you're going to have problems in your marriage.

Because you don't know, nobody taught you the skills on how to resolve and clarify conflict.

And if kids don't see their parents working problems out in front of them and showing how,

this is how we deal when we have a difference.

This is how we deal when we get hurt, how we deal with when we get mad.

Then you have a problem with that.

And what happens is most people

in conflict, they become either a mute and a martyr or they become a maniac. They either

hold it in or they explode it. Everybody, if you don't learn how to deal with conflict, you

tend to become a skunk or a turtle. Now skunks, when they're upset,

they let everybody know it. They just stink up the place. And they spray and everybody

knows they're ticked off. A turtle pulls into their shell and isolates and pulls back

out of fear of conflict.

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