James Creighton: ...fights in relationships are inevitable

Nobody Told Me!

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Have you ever found yourself frustrated in a disagreement with someone you love? Have you ever wanted better conflict resolution skills? Would you like to see something positive result from the negativity of a fight? Our guest on this episode, James L. Creighton, is here to help. James is a Psychologist and relationship consultant whose latest book is called, "Loving through Your Differences: Building Strong Relationships from Separate Realities". His website is https://jameslcreighton.com/

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Jan Black.
0:14.7	And I'm Laura Owens. Have you ever found yourself frustrated in a disagreement with someone you love?
0:20.7	Have you ever wished you
0:21.8	had better skills in terms of handling arguments? Would you like to see something positive result
0:27.3	from the negativity of a fight? Our guest on this episode, James L. Creighton, is here to help.
0:32.9	James is a psychologist and relationship consultant whose latest book is called Loving Through
0:38.3	Your Differences, Building Strong Relationships from Separate Realities.
0:42.3	Thank you so much for joining us today.
0:44.3	Good to be with you.
0:45.3	So what inspired you to write this book?
0:47.3	Well, most couples fight, and some couples fight a little, some fight a lot, and my wife
0:53.3	and I were kind of on the fight a lot end of the scale.
0:57.6	And so we've been working our entire marriage at finding things that help us bridge the gap and so on.
1:04.5	We're 53 years and rolling still, so I guess we're going to make it.
1:09.1	You've done something right, I guess.
1:11.2	Well, when you talk about fighting and that you were on the spectrum of fighting more than
1:17.0	than most couples you think, is that a good thing or a bad thing?
1:20.5	I think the real issue is how you handle the fights when you have them.
1:25.2	Fighting a lot can be a dangerous thing or fighting a lot can be an okay thing if when you do
1:32.0	fight, you handle them in such a way that there's some resolution.
1:35.8	I have some friends who make it a point to try to avoid conflict in their relationships.
1:40.9	And I'm wondering if you feel like all couples need to have disagreements in order
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