“Conflict is messy. We are messy. We’re human, and we’re each carrying our own heavy baggage – from life, from childhood, from previous relationships. We have triggers that get set off. Big emotions that grab us by the throat, or the heart, or the gut – wherever you feel it when you get flooded.”

“Conflict is messy. We are messy. We’re human, and we’re each carrying our own heavy baggage – from life, from childhood, from previous relationships. We have triggers that get set off. Big emotions that grab us by the throat, or the heart, or the gut – wherever you feel it when you get flooded.”

— Julie Schwartz Gottman