What Does Healthy Conflict Look Like In A Romantic Relationship?
What makes a relationship good or bad, or even healthy or unhealthy? Most of us would measure our relationship’s failings or successes by the presence – or lack thereof – of conflict. A conflict-free, argument-free, and disagreement-free relationship is the one we’d pick over one laden with petty squabbles and debates any day of the week.
Most of us are trained, conditioned even, to see conflict as something to be avoided at all costs, and when our relationship has no conflict, we’d point to that as a measure of healthiness. But a lack of conflict doesn’t necessarily mean our relationship is flourishing, or that we should always avoid conflict no matter what. There is such a thing as healthy conflict, but what does that look like in a romantic relationship?