A Smarter Way to Fight With Your Partner

Research-backed strategies for handling relationship conflict

Dinsa Sachan
Forge
Published in
8 min readApr 22, 2019

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Relationship conflict, as with most things, is best in moderation.

On the one hand, fighting is a universally unpleasant experience. There’s even evidence that stress from repeated fighting can harm couples’ physical health. For example, this study found that…

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Dinsa Sachan
Forge
Writer for

Freelance Science Journalist. Wannabe Catwoman. Feminista. Oh, and I’m left-brained.