Transcript excerpt from a conversation (YouTube video) about relationship dynamics, focusing on helping men develop communication and conflict skills in intimate relationships. The speaker emphasizes that differences are normal and that attempting to eliminate differences, rather than learning to navigate them, causes relationship problems.
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If we're being honest in our relationships, conflict and disagreements and differences are going to arise. And that's what I'm so excited about, you know, like with my book, choose her every day or leave her and doing relationship work. And I really. I specialize these days in really focusing on helping men step into relationship, step into their power in relationship without losing themselves. Do skillful communication. Learn how to do conflict, because it's going to happen. If you're having real conversations with your spouse or your girlfriend, conflict is going to arise. And it's. A lot of us have this belief that if we have differences, it means the end of us. Right. If we can't resolve our differences, it means the end of us. Yep. Well, that's not true at all. It certainly doesn't have to be. In fact, one of the things that I'm teaching them is, look, it's not the differences between you that cause problems. It's you constantly trying to make the differences go away that causes problems.