conflict resolution
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Kids exposed to parental violence nearly five times more likely to be violent at home as adults.
Children whose parents treat each other violently are more likely to have mental difficulties as adults finds a study from the National Institute of Health and Medical Research in Paris, France, reports Science Daily.
When researchers carried out in-person interviews with more than 3,000 adults they measured intimate partner violence, violence against children, lifetime suicide attempts and current level of depression.
Participants were also surveyed about any parental separation, divorce and death as well as alcoholism, financial stress and abuse they might have experienced during childhood.
After making adjustments for family and social stress factors, researchers found that adults who were exposed … Read More
A couples therapist on how to survive your first argument and fast forward to make-up time.
Sometimes we get lucky. A new relationship moves along swimmingly, without glitch. It's stress-free, guilt-free and conflict-free to boot. We may even start to gloat about the flat, ever calm quality of the relationship waters. But if six months has passed in your relationship without even the slightest hint of a mild tiff you may have to ask yourself: Are you afraid of the first-fight hurdle?
"You're going to have complaints, and you have to air them at some point. Holding back instead of speaking up can hamper your relationship," says Mona Barbera, PhD, a psychologist and couples therapist who wrote, … Read More
Talk about a heated debate.
Police arrived to screaming and an unexpected site at a Fairfield, C.T. home where they had been called to hose down a domestic dispute. A woman had handcuffed herself to her husband while he slept in their bed, reports Jason Szep for Reuters.
After he dozed off, she apparently slipped the cuff around his wrist and snapped it shut. Why? It seemed to her, at the time, a good way to resolve the conflict. Then, when he awoke and picked up the phone to call the police, the 37-year-old woman began biting him.
She was carted to the station and charged with third-degree … Read More
Do men and women express anger in relationships differently?
Unexpected Facebook message the other night: an old friend from middle school delivered a thumpin' to her husband and was arrested for assault and battery.
I don't know the circumstances at all—not that that really matters. It's domestic violence and it's wrong and it's not the way for a couple to solve a conflict.
But I'd be lying if I didn't admit I am fascinated. I conceptualize a woman hitting a man differently from a man hitting a woman. There is a cultural stereotype against angry women: she's a bitch, or she's crazy. Women are not expected to lash out, … Read More
How to know when your relationship could use a therapist's touch.
You were once in love—giddy-butterflies-running-amok-in-your-innards type love—but now your toothbrushes spend more intimate time than you do. And you’ve started sharing moments you swore you never would: Fighting over dirty dishes, remote control ownership, and enduring breakfast in stoic silence. But every couple squabbles, and pouts, on occasion, so when is a fight just a fight—and when is it more? According to the experts, there are three telltale signs your bickering may require a third party.
1) You’re Running Avoidance Patterns. You and your lover were once attached at the proverbial hip, stuck together so intensely you experienced separation anxiety … Read More
