How do we prevent having conflicts with each other?
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If we're in love, why can there be so much conflict or tension?
What is an example of tensions creating conflict using the Enneagram?
Is the problem our unmet needs or how we communicate our needs with our partner?
In a conflict, isn't someone right and someone wrong?
What should we do when our needs conflict?
How do we prevent having conflicts with each other?
7 Basic Principles for Concious Conflict Resolution
Self-Awareness of Your Personality is the 1st Principle
What does the Enneagram teach about self-awareness?
How do you know when your personality is "Over the Top?"
Do we need to analyze all the issues from our past?
How does self-awareness of your personality help?
How can I identify all the areas in my personality where these pressures show up?
What if what I want in a conflict doesn't seem over the top?
What do we do with our ego needs?
2nd Principle: No More Criticizing or Blaming!
Doesn't honest criticism get your partner to change?
When something is bothering me, how do I get someone to change?
3rd Principle: Take Responsibility in a Conflict
4th Principle: Relating is the key to harmony when needs conflict
If I don't agree how can I validate my partner?
If I don't know what my partner is upset about how can I validate it?
5th Principle: Both Person's Needs Matter!
6th Principle: Is This the Setting to Really Resolve This?
7th Principle: You're Not Entitled to Freely Dump Your Tensions
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Chris Wright is a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist. He sees clients in the Washington, D.C. area and has telephone clients from around the world. So if you are having difficulty in your relationship, call for a free telephone consultation. Chris was Director of the Human Relations Institute in Houston and with PAIRS International -- training psychologists, psychiatrists and therapists in couple's skills programs. As an innovator in the field, he has developed a unique blend of tools that increase the effectiveness in relationships. He has Masters Degrees from the University of Arizona and Antioch University in Los Angeles.
How do we prevent having conflicts with each other?
Host: What would prevent us from having conflicts with each other?
Chris Wright: What would prevent us from having conflicts, is understanding. I mean, if we really understood what was going on, what would there be to fight about, what would there be to argue, it is lack of understanding is what gets it stuck. Imagine that in your relationship, your partner really understand what triggers her that when she is triggered that is different operating system, that she has a set of needs that are different from mine and that hers aren t better than mine or more superior and they are just different so that she doesn t have a sense of needing to make me wrong from mine for not responding to hers.
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Host: What would prevent us from having conflicts with each other?
Chris Wright: What would prevent us from having conflicts, is understanding. I mean, if we really understood what was going on, what would there be to fight about, what would there be to argue, it is lack of understanding is what gets it stuck. Imagine that in your relationship, your partner really understand what triggers her that when she is triggered that is different operating system, that she has a set of needs that are different from mine and that hers aren t better than mine or more superior and they are just different so that she doesn t have a sense of needing to make me wrong from mine for not responding to hers. Imagine that she also an awareness that she recognizes where she is over the top, that her needs come from insecurities, from pressures inside of herself that could push her over the top, so she is aware of that that she is no longer righteous about it. So, she is more imbalanced and third let s say she imagine that she realizes that how she communicates her needs, makes it big difference in determining whether those needs are respond to or not. So, she is conscious of that.
And then lastly, let us say that she is aware of that, how important it is that both needs are met, that both needs matters, that she is not lobbing just for her needs, that in every interaction whether is tensions we are trying to focus on meeting both needs and from my side what would prevent conflict. Let say now, that I am not aware of now that I understand her operating system, let us say she is that one, a perfectionist with alined to four needing to feel special and that s really helpful for me to know that because now I understand where she is coming from, what she is needing? So, I can be much more attentive to focusing on filling those needs more proactive, more attuned, more sensitive to making sure her needs are met.
And, secondly now I am more self-aware of the pressures inside my world that are getting in the way, that they are inhibiting me or creating resistance in me to meeting her needs, to raising my bar to her level, so I can be more responsible in owing that and do something about that.
So, now as a result we were both responsive to each others needs we were going through conflict in a way that is healthier, cleaner, more honoring to each other. It makes all the difference I mean it is a huge but understanding being educated in this dynamics can do.
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