Hi, this is Dr. Lisa Marie Bobby and you're listening to the Love, Happiness, and Success Podcast.

Let's have a love podcast today.

As you may or may not know, I am a therapist, I am a life coach, and I'm also a marriage

counselor.

I do all three of those things in my practice, hence the love, happiness, and success focus of my podcast and other work.

But today I am going to put on my marriage counseling hat and I am going to teach you

something that I think is really important.

I'm going to teach you how to turn any conflict into connection.

I know. It sounds crazy. We think of conflict as something to be avoided, you know, like it's a bad thing. But the truth is, is that any conflict

between your partner, your friends, your family, whatever, it is an opportunity to deepen your relationship and come

closer together if you know what to do. And so today, I'm going to teach you what to do so that you

can have these magical moments with your partner and with your friends and family whenever you like.

And it's really pretty simple, but it does

require a little bit of explanation. So the first thing I'm going to do is just tell you a little

bit about what conflict actually is, you know, and this will sound a little odd maybe, but there

is a very clear and definite mechanism when conflict is occurring, and I know this for my

own life, and also in sitting through hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of marriage counseling sessions

and observing this, is that whenever conflict happens, there is a very specific sequence of events

that unfold.

And so I'll explain for you what those are so that you will be aware of when they're happening in your own interactions.

And then you will have the opportunity to turn on the remedy that I'm going to teach you.

But the first thing I'll do is I'll teach you about what conflict is,

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