Conflict is unavoidable. How you resolve the conflict is what makes the difference between healthy and dysfunctional relationships. We know more now than we did when I was growing up. In my childhood home, the parents had the power and children were truly supposed to be seen and not heard. It was do what you're told or suffer the consequences. There was no such thing as resolving conflict in a mutually satisfying way. Now we have new techniques and new models that allow for the possibility of win-win as opposed to win-lose. It is up to us to become educated in these new approaches for our own
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