How would you define "a fight" with your SO?
I find the posts in this community about definitions of cheating, flirting, etc. to be quite fascinating. So now I'm wondering: how would you define a "fight" with your significant other?
I ask this because my boyfriend and I (and other friends with SOs) sometimes find ourselves in the conversations that "feel" like fights in that they're conflictual, but they don't quite fit the archetype of what a couple's fight looks like in mainstream media (the whole throwing-stuff-crying-screaming-at-each-other scenario). I've talked to one of my best friends recently who said that fights with her boyfriend tend to look more like the silent-treatment variety than the yelling at each other variety.
So in a nutshell, here are some questions I have been wondering on this topic:
1. How would you differentiate between, say, a "fight" and a "disagreement" with an SO, if you would make a distinction between the two?
2. What's been your style of dealing with conflicts with your SO(s)? How have SO(s) responded to this style, and what's their style of dealing with conflict?
Edit: Just a related link that may be of interest to some of you reading this post: Arguing Style Test
I ask this because my boyfriend and I (and other friends with SOs) sometimes find ourselves in the conversations that "feel" like fights in that they're conflictual, but they don't quite fit the archetype of what a couple's fight looks like in mainstream media (the whole throwing-stuff-crying-screaming-at-each-other scenario). I've talked to one of my best friends recently who said that fights with her boyfriend tend to look more like the silent-treatment variety than the yelling at each other variety.
So in a nutshell, here are some questions I have been wondering on this topic:
1. How would you differentiate between, say, a "fight" and a "disagreement" with an SO, if you would make a distinction between the two?
2. What's been your style of dealing with conflicts with your SO(s)? How have SO(s) responded to this style, and what's their style of dealing with conflict?
Edit: Just a related link that may be of interest to some of you reading this post: Arguing Style Test