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The Four-Letter Word That Can End Any Fight
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Start your story about how a single word may bring a fight to an end.
It’s a very familiar scene in RELATIONSHIPS and MARRIAGES: Once An argument between you and your partner heats up, it's very common that those old grudges start sneaking into the conversation. This is what triggers your partner to lash out, which really makes you start bringing up that one thing that really pushes their buttons. Now you’ve gone from miffed to deeply insulted. Before lashing back out with your own cutting comment, though, respond with one simple word. Unlike using phrases that make arguments worse, saying “whatever” could put a heated fight on ice.
Your significant other whom probably knows you better than you and anyone else, including knowing the trigger words that cuts you deep to a core. Which doesn't mean that your partner doesn't loves you, but the heat of the moment is bringing out words you’ll both regret later. That’s why you need to signal your partner that the conversation is getting nasty.
Say: “Whatever. That one really hurt. I don’t know if you were meaning to hurt me; I don’t know if that’s what you were going for;but that’s what you did."
That simple word "WHATEVER" will make your partner—and you—pause before doling out more mean words. With a wake-up call that the argument could cause lasting damage, you can refresh back to the core issue then.
“That conversation—which was a very familiar path, that fight — is now a totally different path because one of you chose to actually get vulnerable,”
Now that you remember how much words hurt and how much the relationship means to you, you can both move forward calmly.
© Tabby Queen
Start your story about how a single word may bring a fight to an end.
It’s a very familiar scene in RELATIONSHIPS and MARRIAGES: Once An argument between you and your partner heats up, it's very common that those old grudges start sneaking into the conversation. This is what triggers your partner to lash out, which really makes you start bringing up that one thing that really pushes their buttons. Now you’ve gone from miffed to deeply insulted. Before lashing back out with your own cutting comment, though, respond with one simple word. Unlike using phrases that make arguments worse, saying “whatever” could put a heated fight on ice.
Your significant other whom probably knows you better than you and anyone else, including knowing the trigger words that cuts you deep to a core. Which doesn't mean that your partner doesn't loves you, but the heat of the moment is bringing out words you’ll both regret later. That’s why you need to signal your partner that the conversation is getting nasty.
Say: “Whatever. That one really hurt. I don’t know if you were meaning to hurt me; I don’t know if that’s what you were going for;but that’s what you did."
That simple word "WHATEVER" will make your partner—and you—pause before doling out more mean words. With a wake-up call that the argument could cause lasting damage, you can refresh back to the core issue then.
“That conversation—which was a very familiar path, that fight — is now a totally different path because one of you chose to actually get vulnerable,”
Now that you remember how much words hurt and how much the relationship means to you, you can both move forward calmly.
© Tabby Queen
