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Resolving Couples' Arguments In 8 Weeks
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Resolving Couples' Arguments In 8 Weeks

Recognize, Understand and Manage your Relationship Conflicts
Created byAdam J. Maddeny
Last updated 5/2024
English

What you'll learn

  • Prevent arguments from spiraling by applying phase-specific rules and conversation boundaries
  • Follow a weekly protocol designed to stabilize, manage, and resolve recurring conflict
  • Use structured scripts and timing limits to safely engage in high-stakes conversations
  • Identify when and how emotional overload turns into communication breakdown
  • Complete conflict resolution “scripts” that create closure without rehashing the past
  • Apply discipline to your emotional engagement without suppressing your perspective
  • Restore functionality to your relationship — even if trust, intimacy, or clarity feels out of reach

Course content

6 sections • 26 lectures • 2h 17m total length
  • Introduction7:18

    TAKEAWAYS

    • Conflict is a natural state of being.

    • Conflict is not “bad” unless it is approached inappropriately.

    • Conflict Resolution requires clearly defining the problem.

    • Conflict Resolution demands redirecting the negative energy of fighting our partner into tackling the actual issues.

  • Conflict? What Conflict?!4:47

    TAKEAWAYS

    • Conflict is merely an incompatibility between two or more opinions, principles, or interests.

    • Fighting is a negative conflict, having a level-headed disagreement is a positive conflict.

    • Each of us is affected differently by events and situations, even those that we share as a couple.

  • Who Is This Course For?2:58

    This course is for couples who are:

    • In a committed relationship in any format; married or not.

    • In the midst of a destructive spiral or approaching one.

    • Still trying to save the relationship and want to be together.

    • Living together regardless of your specific configuration; hetero or same-sex.

  • What you Will Learn3:21

    You will learn how to:

    • Conflict Interruption: Stopping the destructive argument cycle.

    • Conflict Management: Gaining control over the conflict.

    • Conflict Resolution: Resolving the conflict issues.

Requirements

  • Anyone can benefit from this course although it is geared towards couples who are suffering from intractable arguments

Description

This course is for couples who need structure to stop the cycle of repeated arguments.

Resolving Couples’ Arguments in 8 Weeks offers a direct, practical, and time-bound path out of emotional chaos. This is not theory. It’s not discussion. It’s not “figuring things out.” It’s a step-by-step recovery process designed for relationships under strain — where arguments are too frequent, too intense, or too circular to resolve on their own.

You’ll be guided through three progressive phases:

  • Interrupting the Conflict Loop
    Learn how to temporarily stabilize your dynamic with time-limited rules, engagement restrictions, and defined communication windows. No improvisation. No open-ended processing.

  • Managing the Conflict Safely
    Introduce structured conversations with time caps, topic boundaries, and pre-scripted dialogue to prevent derailment. You’ll both know what to say, what not to say, and when to stop.

  • Resolving the Conflict Practically
    Complete closure scripts, build agreements around recurring issues, and introduce a maintenance plan to prevent backsliding into old patterns.

Each week, you’ll implement precise assignments that guide your focus, limit your emotional exposure, and bring just enough structure to make progress feel possible. The format allows you to show up honestly without reigniting the fire you’re trying to put out.

This is not therapy. It’s a protocol.

If you and your partner are willing to follow the steps — even if you’re not feeling close or hopeful — this course will give you the container to begin moving forward. No guesswork. No emotional manipulation. Just structure, timing, and the dignity of knowing what to do next.

Who this course is for:

  • This course is focused on helping couples struggling with an open conflict, ongoing arguments and/or living in a toxic relationship.