May 18, 2024

These couples who argue without stopping but continue to love each other

A cow love that only flourishes in criticism

No one wants to go on holiday with them and we even hesitate to invite them to dinner. It must be said that they have no equal to set the mood ... In front of their friends, families and even their colleagues, they rock missiles so huge that it is uncomfortable for them . Madame who chuckles because her man speaks at the table about the schooling of his children "while he never opened a notebook of correspondence of all his life " to Mr. who complains aloud of the annoying tendency of his dear and tend to complain about everything and anything, going through their eternal dissensions on household chores, TV, their respective mothers, their relationship looks like a trench warfare, where no truce is ever signed ...


 

Far from the eyes, near the heart

They cultivate nevertheless a strange paradox: it is enough that the one left in seminary or on vacation in solo so that immediately the flame rejoins. Exit the names of birds, perpetual denigration, place for long telephone conversations where they remake the world, swear they will make efforts each from their side and reaffirm their feelings. While they can not live together, it turns out that they can not do without each other either.


 

Flemme, masochism or brave feelings?

An attitude full of contradictions that can be explained in various ways. Sometimes it's actually the fear of having to rebuild a couple, the lack of self-confidence that makes you stay with your partner and build on your achievements, even if the daily is chaotic, even painful. In other situations, it is really the love that motivates this choice, even if this love is lived in the mode of aggression and implies that we need to push the other in its entrenchments. Maybe to test it, make it run away and better see it coming back ... The assurance of vibrating, of never falling into the routine.

 

The unsuspected virtues of our bickering

If one believes the specialists of the conjugal thing, the quarrels that some of us practice with diligence also have other benefits. These beaks serve as an outlet, allow to evacuate the resentment rather to brood ... As Jean de la Fontaine so well said "the argument is of great help. Without her, we would always sleep ". Morality: better a couple who takes the beak that a couple who is silent. As long as there are skirmishes, there is hope!



– This is how you stop your partner from cheating | Esther Perel | SVT/NRK/Skavlan (May 2024)