The Power of Conflict

Have you ever stopped to think that conflict could actually be a GOOD thing in your relationships? I know I never really thought that way before, until my class this week. My teacher really brought to light the great advantages to having conflict in a relationship and I'll discuss a few of them. The interesting thing about all of the advantages to being exposed to conflict is that it all kind of weaves together. When you are in a conflict and you are in it with a humble heart you begin to learn more about other perspectives or information that you never thought about before. Along with learning new things from a different perspective, this allows you to become more humble or teachable. When you are teachable, you begin to learn more and you become closer to your spouse. There's an analogy that my teacher talked about that helped us to really understand perspective. If you stick your hand out and have one person sitting on opposite sides of your hand, both people will see it differently. However, it is a description of the same thing; the hand. Often times when we get into fights it is only what we see but if we can broaden our minds we can try to understand where that person is coming from.