Hey everyone, welcome to Being Well, I'm Forest Hanson.

If you're new to the podcast, this is where we explore the practical science of personal

growth, and if you've listened before, welcome back.

I'm joined today as usual by Dr. Rick Hanson, Rick is a clinical psychologist, he's the

best-selling author, and he's also my dad, so dad, how are you doing today?

I'm good, and I'm looking forward to this conversation with you.

Yeah, so you have a new book out, it's titled Making Great Relationships, Simple Practices

for Solving Conflicts, Building Connection, and Fostering Love, and if you're interested

in ordering it, you can find it pretty much wherever books are sold, and today I wanted

to focus mostly on the first part of the subtitle, and talk with you a bit about how we can

get better at navigating conflict in our relationships.

And we'll start by talking about some general concepts, but I also thought it would be fun

to make this as practical as possible for people, and I'd like to describe a couple of

fairly common interactions I've seen people get stuck in, and I'll ask you how people

might navigate them a bit more skillfully.

Does that sound good to you?

Oh, great.

My bread and butter has a longtime couples counselor and longtime husband and father and

neighbor and son and brother and human, for sure, for sure.

Talking about the first part of that, couples counseling, what were some of the most common

kinds of conflict, either in a one person who's talking about something that they're dealing

with in their life or when people enter your office as a couple that you saw between

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