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Do you avoid conflict, or face it head on?
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Face it head on!!
While I prefer to avoid conflict in my personal life it is not possible to avoid in my business world.
Avoid
face it head on
With my booboo I face them but usually I avoid them
Well i almost always try to avoid fight with him but he is a little jealous so he is almost always fighting.
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Depends on who it's with, I try to avoid conflict with those I love especially my gorgeous better half, but if it's a complete stranger the hulk's comin out!
I tend to face problems head on.
Well, in the case of the Dagmar encounter you didn't face any conflict head on, just waited a couple of months to try to slip it by and by the way, give me a sleepless night....not cool
Female, 31-35 years, Married | Jun 07, 2012
Female, 31-35 years, Married | Jun 07, 2012
LESSON LEARNED: In the future I'll keep my mouth shut like every other man on the planet since my wife can't handle my seeing a friend who is going through a nasty divorce and who is so sick from Crohn's Disease that she had missed a week of work. I thought this website was supposed to be an "icebreaker"--not freeze hell over with cold rage. BTW, I received your letter today, but I guess you don't feel the same way anymore. Based on your own words above, I should keep secrets from you. If you don't feel that way, get your emotions in check before you do some damage you'll live to regret.
Male or Female, 26-30 years, Dating | Jun 07, 2012
Male or Female, 26-30 years, Dating | Jun 07, 2012
BTW, THERE WAS NO CONFLICT WITH DAGMAR. I FIGURED YOU COULD'T HANDLE MY SEEING HER, AND YOU PROVED ME RIGHT.
Male or Female, 26-30 years, Dating | Jun 07, 2012
Male or Female, 26-30 years, Dating | Jun 07, 2012
Oh, and of course it is all my fault for being angry at the fact that after I went and took the kids to see my husband in a remote location he had to call his ex girlfriend (who by the way really wanted to marry him)for the second time and just meet with her...once it was fine since it's YOUR friend as you say, but TWICE????? Maybe you need to see that if you didn't tell me back then is because you knew that it wasn't right, otherwise you would have spilled it (and you know yourself)...I don't think I'm the one that needs to get my emotions in check, you are the one who needs to make a decision about what is important, to actually appreciate the fact that your family just took planes, drove forever and spent nights in smelly hotels to see you and be content JUST with that....
Keeping your mouth shut would just confirm that you are doing something wrong, you might want to check with your conscience then....
Glad you got my letter...it was an honest one...
Female, 31-35 years, Married | Jun 07, 2012
Female, 31-35 years, Married | Jun 07, 2012
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For me, head on. If there is a problem, I'll be talking about it.
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a little bit of both.
It depends on how strongly I feel about something. Sometimes I just let things go instead of addressing them, which I am learning is not always the best thing for our marriage to do. But at other times I do take a stand! :)
I have learned to be cautious on how I approach conflict! This makes a big difference on how quickly the conflict is solved! It's not about what we say, it's bout how it's said!
Avoid it
