Conflict
An encounter with interpersonal conflict
Conflict is something we all ex prince at one point or another in our life time. According to our author, “Conflict is a part of every interpersonal relationship,...” (DeVito, 2008-2009, p.286). Since people have different views, conflict, a disagreement, is something we all must learn to deal with. The conflict I choose to write about involves a conflict I encountered with my ex-girlfriend a while ago. Me and my ex met through mutual friends we shared. However, these weren't all of our friends. About half a year into the relationship we started to argue about where to go and which friends parties we would go to. Naturally, each of us was trying to argue the other to go to with our own friends. The problem, for the most part, wasn't that we disliked the other's friends, but rather that this parties were on the same time, usual, Friday and Saturday evening. Obviously, each time we had this argument one of us, if not both, got really frustrated and annoyed. Needless to say, because we were dating each other this soon effected other aspects of our relationship; we had to find some sort of solution. At first we tried to avoid the conflict, either me or she would cave in rather quickly. After about half a year the arguments would become longer and longer, until eventually we both went out alone. In this paper I will explain how the five principles of conflict from our textbook (DeVito, 2008-2009) were present in our conflict. The first principle of conflict is that conflict is inevitable. (DeVito, 2008-2009). In the beginning me and my ex were trying to be nice and avoid the argument at all cause. We were in the beginning of a relationship and both of us were trying to please the other. The first time we had a big fight was because her friend had a birthday party at her home, at the same time my best friend had a Super bowl party at his house. At the time, after a long argument we have decided to go to her girlfriend
Conflict is something we all ex prince at one point or another in our life time. According to our author, “Conflict is a part of every interpersonal relationship,...” (DeVito, 2008-2009, p.286). Since people have different views, conflict, a disagreement, is something we all must learn to deal with. The conflict I choose to write about involves a conflict I encountered with my ex-girlfriend a while ago. Me and my ex met through mutual friends we shared. However, these weren't all of our friends. About half a year into the relationship we started to argue about where to go and which friends parties we would go to. Naturally, each of us was trying to argue the other to go to with our own friends. The problem, for the most part, wasn't that we disliked the other's friends, but rather that this parties were on the same time, usual, Friday and Saturday evening. Obviously, each time we had this argument one of us, if not both, got really frustrated and annoyed. Needless to say, because we were dating each other this soon effected other aspects of our relationship; we had to find some sort of solution. At first we tried to avoid the conflict, either me or she would cave in rather quickly. After about half a year the arguments would become longer and longer, until eventually we both went out alone. In this paper I will explain how the five principles of conflict from our textbook (DeVito, 2008-2009) were present in our conflict. The first principle of conflict is that conflict is inevitable. (DeVito, 2008-2009). In the beginning me and my ex were trying to be nice and avoid the argument at all cause. We were in the beginning of a relationship and both of us were trying to please the other. The first time we had a big fight was because her friend had a birthday party at her home, at the same time my best friend had a Super bowl party at his house. At the time, after a long argument we have decided to go to her girlfriend