Tips for getting relationship help
If you’re having a tough time in your relationship, and seem to be constantly fighting, here’s some relationship help that may ease your thoughts a little – these battles do not necessarily last for long, and the couple may be very loving and positive in-between battles. The battles may then be a preliminary to sex, in the ‘making up phase’, although they may also go on for too long, so that sex becomes impossible because of the continual hostility.
How to break the cycle
One possibility is to leave a gap between speakers, so as to reduce the risk of ‘shooting from the hip’ and making a counter-attack.
Another way is to try and see the other’s point of view, for example by deliberately swapping roles (he takes over her arguments and she takes over his).
