The popularly held belief concerning relationships is that all of them have conflict, and that it is how you handle the conflict that is important. In fact it is put forth that if people claim not to have conflict in their relationship, they are suppressing or ignoring reality.
If this viewpoint is altered, even
slightly, to say that most relationships have conflict, then it would reflect more of the truth, and even more importantly, leave room for exploration of other avenues of relating. It could set the stage for people to believe in other ways to be together that don’t reflect this one-sided scenario on the inevitabilities of conflict.
Our experience verifies one of those other avenues.
