Couples fight over nothing most of the times; little things that shouldn’t cause a scene have caused major problems in relationships and marriages. The bad thing about this is that the more these unnecessary fights and arguments pile up, the toxic the relationship would be.
If you are tired of having those unnecessary fights and arguments, these tips would help you stop them.
1. STOP SEEKING FOR WHO’S RIGHT AND WHO’S WRONG
Who’s right and who’s wrong; the major reason many couples have those frequent and unnecessary fight is for this reason. They tend to seek who’s right and who’s wrong, forgetting that it’s the relationship that matters most at the end of the day.
2. DON’T LEAVE MATTERS UNRESOLVED
Leaving matters unresolved isn’t really a good way to go about your relationship with your partner. On the short-term, it might be okay to just dump an issue without actually resolving it, but on the long run, you could both implode one day, and the problems would become too hard and complicated to solve. It’s better to solve issues as early as possible, forgive each other and then move on.
3. MAKE YOUR RELATIONSHIP BETTER
The surest way to ensuring a trouble-free relationship is by building a better relationship. Do the basics; communicate with each other, go on dates with each other, have good moments together, build lasting friendship. When you do this, those unnecessary fights and arguments would be far from your relationship.
4. CONTROL YOUR TEMPER
Anger is a huge relationship killer; if you can’t control it, your relationship would suffer. Learn to control your temper and don’t let anger get the better of you.
5. ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR MISTAKES
When you own up to your mistakes, it just makes things easier. The problem lies in couples claiming to be right all the time. You aren’t superman; you weren’t sent to save the world, you aren’t perfect. So if you make a mistake and did something wrong, simply own up to it and apologise — that’s called maturity.
6. MOVE ON
Learn to forgive, learn to apologise, learn to free your hearts from malice and grudges and then learn to move on.
7. DON’T LOOK FOR PERFECTION
Stop looking for perfection in your partner; you aren’t flawless and neither is your partner. Try to accept your partner’s flaws and imperfection; if you can’t do this, those fights would keep coming thick and fast.
8. REMEMBER WHAT’S IMPORTANT
At the end of the day, remember what’s most important to you — your relationship with each other. Don’t let ego, anger and other negative emotions come in-between what matters most — your relationship and the love that you both share.
If you want to stop having those petty and unnecessary fights with your partner, you have to put these eight things into practice.
Shawn