Own Your Step - Family Business Leadership Development and Culture Advisory
Own Your Step - Family Business Leadership Development and Culture Advisory
A disagreement can be dealt with in a productive manner, and a partnership can even grow from it.—Arguing with your partner is going to happen. Arguments are a very common occurrence in relationships. Whether you’re bickering over something as small as not doing the laundry or something holding more significance like finances, you will come to a point where both of you will have a difference of opinion, and that’s okay.Arguing has a preconceived notion attached to it that it will impact a relationship negatively. Personally, I believe an argument is neither a good, nor a bad thing. In my opinion, you make the argument what it is. So, you can either regard it as productive, or you can decide it will be an an event you’ll allow to cause more problems than it should. It is solely up to you.I believe every single argument you and your partner encounter can be productive, but first you have to learn how to view it as such. Below I’ll share my experience on how to turn an argument into a disagreement, then turn the disagreement into what can equate to personal growth in your relationship. –How to turn an argument into a disagreement.–When you hear someone say they got into an argument with their partner, what are your first thoughts? Mine were, “wow, that’s not good” or “sounds a bit heavy.” Now, when you hear someone say they had a disagreement with their partner, what are your thoughts? An argument has a negative connotation associated to it, where usually only one party can be correct. A disagreement however, tends to lead us to believe that both parties are justified in their reasoning and they happen to differ from each other. In order to turn an argument into a disagreement, I had to change my mindset about those two words. I had to understand my partner and I would not always see eye to eye about everything, and not to get too caught up in who is right and who is wrong in the moment. We needed to reach a conclusion productively. A simple change of words is all it takes to create a new mindset, and with this new mindset you can also forge togetherness by identifying meeting grounds on certain issues. Which leads me to my next point:For the full article, click here.
