THE BLOG

You and your partner have had the same argument over and over. And each time it’s the same thing. You make your points. They make theirs. Things get heated. Nothing gets resolved. Why is that such a common cycle? And what can you do to get out of it? The Biological Problem There’s a couple of factors at play here. One is simply physiology: once you get emotionally ramped up enough, your body goes into fight-or-flight mode. It loads up on stress hormones and adrenaline, prepar