You Can't Just Walk Away From a Fight

When you would use affection to cut through the anger, it actually did usually make our fights more productive. One of the things both of us were familiar with was experience with family or extended family, leaving or abandoning a person mid conflict. And so it's something that we knew when we got married, even though we were not super healthy in many ways,. We knew we did not want to be a spouse who walked away from a fight.