Discuss this with your spouse and talk about what you both can do to replace any unhealthy habits. Take a look at past arguments and honestly consider how you handled them. However, because I know that I am prone to this unhealthy response, I am much more aware of when I am doing it and am working on communicating more openly. The “silent treatment” was how my family often handled conflict growing up, and it is natural and easy for me to follow in that pattern as an adult. Personally, I have realized that I have a tendency to clam up when I am upset about something. When you are mindful of yourself, you can be more aware and proactive in preventing a conflict from escalating, causing further strife and anxiety. Knowing your tendencies and dispositions to handling conflict is critical in addressing issues in a healthy way. How do you react to conflict? Do you lash out? Clam up? Seek to punish your spouse? Harbor resentment in your heart? Seven Habits for Healthy Conflict Resolution in Marriage 1. I share these not because our marriage is perfect, but because we are growing in grace like you, striving to have a marriage that honors God, and which is a source of love and joy. Here are seven strategies that we have found to be very helpful in pursuing peace and reconciliation when there is a misunderstanding or conflict in our marriage. But any time two people spend time together, disagreements, friction, and sometimes worse, are inevitable. And marriage is a lot of time together.Ĭonflict is inevitable but we can grow and learn to handle it in healthy ways. I am thankful that our marriage has been without much serious conflict over the last ten years. I write about what I know. And I want to tell you, that the only reason I can write about these things is because I am learning from experience. You might say it has been on our minds recently. He replied almost at once, and I thought it was funny that he gave me this topic so quickly. I am republishing it with permission here.While I was considering topics to share, I asked my husband for ideas and he suggested I write about marriage conflict. This post was originally published at Embracing A Simpler Life. Learning healthy conflict resolution in marriage is essential for every marriage relationship because conflict is inevitable! Here are seven simple strategies you can put into practice today to resolve conflict in a healthy way.

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