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Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Five Styles of Conflict

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

How does the word "conflict," make you feel? Like it or not, it will be part of your marriage. The key is in how you deal with it when it comes. Greg, Erin and John discuss five styles of conflict and share which ones they identify with the most. Featuring Mrs. Debra Fileta.

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0:00.0

Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't

0:04.7

grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I

0:10.2

take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I

0:14.4

ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't

0:18.8

shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love

0:23.6

with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app

0:28.2

today.

0:36.0

How does it make you feel when I say this word conflict? Now for many of us, we

0:41.8

want to run and hide. For a select few though, it may sound kind of fun. Like

0:47.4

let's have it. Let's bring it on. Now in marriage, you're going to encounter at

0:52.0

some point, some conflict. So it's best to know how you deal with it and to get

0:56.8

it on the table early on. I'm John Fuller in the studio with Greg and Erin

1:01.1

Somali. They are professional counselors, speakers, writers. They lead our

1:05.3

marriage team here at Focus. And Greg, if I'm not mistaken, it was just the last

1:10.0

episode where you made this kind of timid admission that you're conflict

1:14.2

avoidant. And I'm joking with you on that because you've been very clear. I

1:17.8

don't like conflict. And there are many many of us men in particular, but a lot

1:22.0

of women too, saying, yeah, we don't like it either. So what's that about? I mean,

1:25.8

how do you feel when I say conflict? Very uncomfortable. So I prefer you not

1:30.2

even to utter the words. Okay. My mouth starts to dry up. I can use it with

1:35.4

an isn't for it. Yeah. Well, it's not like I'm over here jumping up and down

1:39.5

when I hear the word conflict. So you're not ready to go. But no, but I know

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