Conflict in Relationships

Conversations with Dr. Jennifer

Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife

Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Sexuality, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In this NEW PODCAST episode, Dr. Finlayson-Fife joins Raini Hamilton to talk about the important role conflict plays in intimate relationships and how couples can use conflict to grow closer together and expand their lives and relationship. Listen to the full episode to learn more about: * Conflict vs Contempt * Our need for both connection and autonomy * Effective communication during conflict * Losing strategies

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0:00.0	Welcome to Conversations with Dr. Jennifer, a collection of interviews on the topics of relationships,
0:15.2	sexuality, and more, all featuring Dr. Finlason Fife.
0:21.2	Hey guys, today we have with us Jennifer Finlayson Fife and she is an LDS relationship
0:29.8	and sexuality coach with a PhD in counseling psychology.
0:34.0	She focuses on helping LDS folks achieve greater satisfaction
0:38.2	and passion in their emotional and sexual relationships.
0:42.1	She offers consultation, online courses, and many live
0:45.5	workshops and retreats. She is also the host of Room for Two, a popular sex and intimacy
0:51.7	coaching podcast.
0:53.2	Today she's going to be offering us
0:55.3	her expert tips on working through conflict in relationships.
0:59.2	Thanks for being here today, Jennifer.
1:01.3	Thanks for having me. Yeah, so what, how is conflict an important part of intimate relationships?
1:09.0	Well, intimacy is sometimes we confuse with validation.
1:16.6	So a lot of times we say we want to have an intimate relationship,
1:20.9	but in fact we don't really want it we want a relationship that makes us feel good about ourselves and sometimes we use the word intimacy when we mean feeling that we get back from another person that sense of closeness or the sense that we're okay.
1:37.0	Intimacy actually requires that you are knowable and that you know your partner and when you do that in a relationship it
1:47.9	brings up differences it brings up areas of conflict.
1:52.8	One of the things I talk about a lot in the courses
1:55.1	that I do is that human beings want two things all the time.
2:00.5	That is, we want to belong to someone special to us, right?
2:04.3	We want to belong to important people in our lives.
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