All right, team, welcome back to the man talk show.

Connor Beaton here with a little bit of a cold.

So hopefully don't mind that.

You can bear it through the congestion.

Today we're going to be talking about the one relationship skill that could save your

relationship, that could save your marriage, or at the very least,

dramatically improve it. And that skill is the skill of leading through conflict. Now, we all kind

of know that, and if you've been in a relationship, you especially know this, everybody kind of

knows that conflict is either going to make or break a relationship, right? How a couple navigates

through disconnection, arguments, disagreements, disagreeing on, you know, how you should spend

money or when you have kids or what house you should move in. All of those things are little

small conflicts or they can be massive massive big conflicts depending on where each person

in the couple stands. And how the individuals in the relationship navigate through that conflict

will determine the quality of their connection, their intimacy, their communication, and usually

the longevity of the quality of that relationship.

So conflict, as I'm defining it here, and I'm going to give you some very tactical

steps of how you can better lead through conflicts in your relationship.

Because one of the things that I've found is that men that are in happy, healthy relationships that they're enjoying, that they're

fulfilled by, they know how to lead through the conflict. Now, obviously, you have to have a willing

partner. Obviously, you have to have somebody that is open to some of the things I'm going to be

talking about and not actively trying to destroy the relationship, although I think that's

usually few and far between. But the men that I've met that love their relationships, that love

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