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How To Handle Disagreements With Your Spouse (How To Deal With Conflict With Your Spouse)

There are ways to save marriage even when conflicts and disagreements are increasing every day and learning how to handle conflict and disagreements with your spouse will be our focus in this article.

By Ashley ScholarPublished 2 years ago Updated 2 years ago 6 min read
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It must be really disturbing for you to know that things are taking a negative turn in a marriage which was once full of passion and love. The fact that arguments, shouting and conflicts are increasing in your marriage makes it even more disconcerting. But you must know that such a thing is not new and every couple had faced similar situation sometime or the other. But as the saying goes, there is light at the end of the tunnel, there are ways to save marriage even when conflicts and disagreements are increasing every day and explaining such solutions to marriage problems will be our focus in this article.

Analyze Problems

At first you may not realize that the solution to these problems is very simple and only a small shift in what you believe, kind of thoughts as well as expectations you have will be necessary. In an ideal situation you will be able to find a situation by first accepting that a problem exists and needs to be solved.

Find Solutions

To better explain this we can take the example of back pain, if you look at it as a problem which is to be removed and think of painkillers as the most viable option present for you then in the longer run it will not be the ideal approach. The right way will be to think of back pain as a signal that something is wrong inside the body and you have to find it, and if you start looking at ways it can be corrected you will be doing a favor to yourself.

Similar strategy could be applied in case of marriage also but if you look at marriage problems as pain which is to be removed anyhow, be it by using all money you have, by trying to dominate your spouse, escaping from your relationship and lastly deciding about divorce, then you are not reaching a solution and won't be doing a justice to yourself as well as your spouse.

Change Your Viewpoint

You will have to look at problems as indicators that something is not right in your relationship and you have to find out what it is. You will have to think what might be causing these complications in the relationship. Often you will find that it is not a serious problem and can be solved very easily. The main thing here is that you took the initiative to find out what was wrong before it became too complicated and solving it became easy.

Give Proper Attention Your Spouse Needs

How you look at various things is important here. You can view back pains as something unwelcome or as indication that there are physical strains causing these back pains. The solution could be taking rest for a few days and you get relief from back pains. However if you continue to ignore these back pains then things start to complicate and pain intensifies.

This example is applicable in case of your marriage also. There are two ways in which you can react if your spouse continues to complain about something or the other, you could either block him or her from complaining or understand that they want to make you understand something and are looking for your attention. The solution here will be to spend more time with your spouse and start doing things you did together earlier and had fun.

We can conclude by saying that the best solution to handle such marriage conflicts is to look at things which are causing these conflicts and get to solution even if it sometimes means doing a few compromises. As your spouse notices that you pay him or her more attention and show more respect, they start feeling secured and love starts to grow again in the relationship.

How To Rebuild Your Relationship With Your Spouse

Saving a marriage isn't easy only because most of us make it more difficult than it should be. There are three things you should know if you want to rebuild your relationship with your spouse and avoid that slippery slope that takes a couple straight down the path to divorce.

Problems in a marriage are common. Even deep, seemingly impossible to overcome problems are normal. Health issues, money issues, debt, job loss, and simple everyday stress put extra pressure on couples and very quickly a couple can appear to be drifting apart. When that happens, one or the other of you may sense a change in the marriage and doubt, fear and insecurity settle in. Once those have taken hold, it can be difficult to get your marriage back on track simply because your natural instincts for self-preservation in such situations generally work against you.

Secrets to Saving a Marriage

1. Your current attempts at saving your marriage are probably pushing your spouse further away. When we fear we may lose our spouse, we tend to cling more closely to them, beg them to stay, and do things we wouldn't normally do in order to make them see how much we love them. We wear our heart on our sleeves - moping around the house, looking sad and weepy, and making more of every little comment than it was meant to be. These types of behaviors can make your spouse uncomfortable and confirm for them that getting away is the only solution.

2. If you and your spouse are fighting all the time, you can stop it all by yourself. If you are having marital problems, there may be a lot of fighting. It doesn't start out as fighting, though. One spouse starts wanting to talk about the problems more and more until the other spouse gets uncomfortable, suddenly hurtful comments are hurled and the discussion leads to fighting. If your conversations have started to deteriorate into fights, stop the fighting by being the role model for healthy discussion. If you stop reacting to taunts and stop hurling your own insults, your spouse will follow your lead.

3. Many people take no steps towards saving a marriage in hopes that the problems will go away. Problems in a marriage are like weeds. If weeds sprout up in your yard, they don't go away by themselves. In fact, they grow and spread and take over until all you have is a yard of weeds. That's what you're growing if you ignore the fact that something is wrong and hope that it will disappear on its own - you are growing a marriage of weeds. Instead, pull out the tools necessary to get rid of those weeds, or problems in your relationship and keep your marriage healthy.

Saving a marriage in trouble doesn't come naturally to most people. Fortunately, there are relationship and marriage guides that can help you take the steps necessary to rebuild a happier and healthier life with your spouse.

Do you want to reawaken a committed and loving relationship in your marriage? There are proven steps that are amazingly powerful that will help you overcome conflicts and breathe life back into your marriage. This is a plan you do not want to pass by. Click here to see the proven steps on how to save your marriage.

Divorce does not have to be your only option. Even if it feels as though your relationship can't be saved because of the ongoing conflicts between you and your spouse, it can be. There are techniques that you can begin using today that will not only stop a divorce, but will help also you build a stronger and more loving marriage. To learn more visit: Steps to Save Your Marriage

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