Connor Beaton (speaker/creator) offers relationship coaching on resolving conflict without retreating. He prompts partners to identify behaviors that start arguments or create disconnection, recommends noticing those behaviors in the moment and intentionally stepping out of reactive cycles to offer care and repair, and normalizes that many relationship arguments never fully resolve—some take years or remain unresolved despite repair attempts.
Chapters
What have you noticed that I do to start arguments or create disconnection? Those are the two pieces what do you do and what does she do that either starts arguments and conflict or creates disconnection? Talking about those things and being able to resolve them in the moment can be super super helpful and having recognition of I'm doing that thing now or you're doing that thing right now. I'm going to step out of that cycle and just give love and connection and care. Leave the repair when conflict does happen when an argument happens and whether or not it gets resolved because research has shown that there are many arguments that do not get resolved in a relationship and in fact there are some arguments in most people's long term relationships that actually just never get resolved and we have this notion that everything should have a solution everything should be like neatly ironed out in the relationship and there are some things that genuinely just take couples years to chew on and move through and come to a resolution of.
