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Hey everybody, it's Mary L.

So happy almost Valentine's Day. You know this little Valentine's Day cards that have the cute corny messages on them, like the classic be mine or maybe there's a bunny holding a heart and it says some bunny loves you.

You know what those never say?

Let's fight.

Everybody talks about the romance of relationships, the red roses and endless sex, but nobody really wants to think about

the disagreements that are a completely normal part of a partnership.

A lot of people really don't know how to manage conflict.

What we're seeing a lot is couples in the United States

are engaged in kind of a standoff.

So they start by presenting the issue as a defect in their partner's personality,

which just leads the partner to become defensive and it escalates very quickly into a standoff and attack defend standoff and when that happens

it really is very dangerous for the future of the relationship.

Any of that sound familiar?

If so, it's time to change how you view your disagreements.

Conflict really has a purpose and the purpose is mutual understanding.

That was Julian John Gottman, world-renowned researchers and clinical psychologists who've been married

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