Is Your Relationship Worth Healing with Conflict? A Decision Tree.
Hi, everyone! This is Lara Hammock from the Marble Jar channel and in today’s video I’ll walk you through my mental Decision Tree on whether its worth engaging in healthy conflict in order to heal a relationship. Within the last 2 weeks, I’ve had 3 relationship conflicts to deal with. It’s uncomfortable and stressful even for someone like me who is more at home with conflict than most. I come from a family that believes that conflict generally ends well. Now that doesn’t always mean we fight fairly or are on our best behavior during conflicts, but we honor the role of conflict as essential to good relationships. I married into a family where conflict generally does NOT end well. My mother in law once told me that there were never any fights in her marriage. I think she believed that was a sign of supreme relationship health -- I take the opposing view on that. So, my view is that our most important relationships are worth fighting fo...