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Marital Conflict Resolution

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

COMPROMISE

  • Involves both parties infinding a satisfactory agreement
  • Neither person has to make a major sacrifice
  • The solution contains ideas from all parties involved
  • Companionship is enhanced
  • No winner or loser

ACCOMMODATION

  • When both people agree to disagree
  • Accept each other's differences
  • Recognize the right of someone else to believe differently than you do
  • Although differences remain, they do not break down the relationship
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CONCESSION

  • Giving in - one person gives all while the other gives nothing
  • Allows one person to win
  • Communication and bargaining takes place
  • Both parties must be willing to live with the decision
  • The loser knows he/she will have a chance to win at another time

MARTYRDOM

  • One of the partners is conflict shy and will do anything to avoid conflict
  • One person always gives in
  • Relationship deteriorates
  • There is no respect for the person who always gives in
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ONGOING HOSTILITY

  • When a couple lives in a constant state of disagreement, quarreling, and bickering
  • Fighting is constant and tension occurs frequently and is expressed destructively
  • The relationship detiorates
  • No decisions or resolutions are made