- Home
- Relationships - Women
- Fighting Without Solutions
Fighting Without Solutions
- By Miss Emily
- Published 05/16/2011
- Relationships - Women
Dear Miss Emily:
I have been with my boyfriend for about 2 years, and we fight all the time, everyday. i don't know what to do any more. We just find something to fight about, and we fight! I am tired of it, but I don't want to leave him. What should i do?
------------------------------Miss Emily's advice-------------------
If you don't want to leave him, and you can't find a way to settle your arguments by finding solutions that will prevent more arguments about that same issue, I doubt whether this relationship will last, indefinitely -- unless you and he are incurable masochists. Fights can become habit, and they also stem from two people who will simply never see eye-to-eye. If any of the fights are because one of you is trying to change the other, that's why they don't have any positive outcome -- and continue. People, usually, only change their behavior when it benefits them, or they have seen the error of their ways. Any other reason would be coercion. Learn to accept him, warts and all, without having to call him on his every word or deed (he must do the same for you), or you'll end up hating each other. Avoid knee-jerk reactions to comments, and be thoughtful before responding. If you continue down this path, it doesn't mean you'll break up, but you will have a lousy relationship with a guy who may simply not be right for you.

