Why Couples Who Never Fight May Be in Trouble

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🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to my morning monologue.
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0:18.6	Remember, you can hear my radio program daily on Sirius XM Triumph and connect with me 24-7
0:26.2	at Dr.ora.com. All right, a lot of you think, and I've had people call and say, we never fight.
0:34.7	We never, ever fight. We don't have a disagreement. We don't have any disagreements and we never fight. We never ever fight. We don't have a disagreement. We don't have any disagreements and we never
0:41.4	fight. I remember talking to somebody about a week ago about how he and his wife, in fact, he said
0:49.2	this. We never fight. We never have a difference.
0:55.0	And spending some time talking to him, I knew why.
1:00.0	He was totally dominant.
1:05.0	There is no arguing with this dude.
1:07.0	Wow. Yeah. Avoiding all disagreements, most of the time signals a lack of everybody being
1:16.0	authentic. It's not really true relationship harmony. Interesting article by Jason Linder,
1:25.2	and I know this dude for many, many years ago, and he wrote a really good
1:28.3	article that's in psychology today recently, called The Surprising Truth about Partners
1:34.5	Who Never Argued.
1:38.8	We actually never fight. We're just totally compatible. Everything is fine. To most good therapists, this is a
1:49.6	warning sign because the more honest, authentic, vulnerable we are with our partners, that really
1:57.0	builds the bond. And the more we do that, the more differences in opinion and attitudes
2:03.2	and stuff we're going to find. So if you guys are not discussing these differences, the odds are
2:10.4	that these differences are living quietly, powerfully behind the scenes, ending up in distance and resentment.
2:22.7	Oh, let's continue.
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