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In response to George Bach's claim, I confute that fighting under any circumstance is unwarranted and unhealthy. In order to have a healthy sexual relationship, there must be conflict and there must be love. Love and war go together hand in hand. A healthy sexual relationship consists of many factors, such as communication, love, and sex. And with these factors, fighting would often transpire due to differences that people tend to view differently. Fighting can be healthy and beneficial in a sexual relationship, but an overabundance can be detrimental to its survival.
According to George Bach's rules on healthy fighting, some rules to consider when fighting are to leave out physical and emotional abuse. Although both are unacceptable behaviors, emotional abuse is the greater of the two evils. Physical abuse causes bodily injuries which may include broken bones and scars, however, they eventually will resolve with time. Emotional abuse, on the other hand, leaves no physical scars, but the mental anguish can last a lifetime leading to a vicious cycle with future relationships. It was also stated and recommended to not bring up issues in the past which have no relevance to the current argument. This type of fighting only makes more problems for the parties involved.
Prior to my present relationship, my ex-girlfriend would constantly bring up things I did in the past to an argument that we were having in the present. For example, I once brought up the idea that my ex-girlfriend go shopping with my best friend because I really like the way she dressed. Overtime, my ex-girlfriend began to develop thoughts and insecurities toward my best friend because she believed I put my best friend on a pedestal. This led to constant arguing and fights between us because in her mind, I was cheating on her and she had no trust in me. Eventually, my ex-girlfriend and I talked about our problem and she realized that she was acting irrational with the whole situation. Our relationship, with time, began to get back on track. One day, while we were arguing about me spending too much time my male friends, she would bring up my best friend and say that I was not really spending time with my male friends, but cheating on her with my best friend. This came up on numerous arguments, which eventually drove me away from our relationship. This type of fighting a...
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...herself and I. This compromise really worked out for us and we have not argued over anything that had to do with spending time with each other since then. Therefore, this argument was beneficial for us because it brought us to a resolution about feelings my girlfriend was experiencing. Without this argument, to this day, my girlfriend would still be angry with me for spending too much time with my friends and not with her.
In conclusion, we tend to look upon fighting as a negative aspect of a relationship because usually, there is arguing, fighting, and people often tend to get hurt. But, there is an upside to fighting and that is to "make-up". Eventually fighting comes to an end and can either be viewed as positive or negative. By having a positive effect, couples can learn from each other through compromise and resolution. On the other hand, unfair and unhealthy fighting can ruin a relationship, leaving bitterness and resentment towards the parties involved. In intimate and sexual relationships, fighting helps us understand and get to know each other a little bit better. We learn from each other, which then helps us to prevent similar situations to occur in the future.
In 1765, Holy Roman Emperor Francis I, her father, died of a stroke. He left Maria Theresa his position, and gave their eldest son, Emperor Joseph II, the throne. Because of this political, it became a requirement for Marie Antoinette to marry Louis Auguste. Her mother sent her to France and agreed on this marriage. It was hard to adjus...
The French Revolution, beginning in 1789, was a lengthy process in which the people of France took over the government and instituted a Republic (Chambers). The overarching goal of the Revolution was to place the power of government in the hands of the people. For two years, whilst France was facing internal disorganization and external wartime threats, the government was run by a war dictatorship under Maximilien Robespierre, the head of the Committee of Public Safety (“Reign of Terror”). Amid much internal suspicion and fear, the Reign of Terror began. Much of France was politically divided, and Robespierre’s method for keeping the government stable in a time of crisis involved severe penalties for any suspected of plotting against the new government (Chambers). Soon the accusations began to fly and a handful of people convicted and killed for treason became thousands. Many of the cases turned into the accuser’s word versus the accused, and a government preoccupied with bigger issues often did not care to look into these cases, simply convicting the accused, supposedly to promote a sense of unity and control to the citizens of France, and to forewarn anyone who did attempt treasonous deeds (Chambers). Eventually, Marie Antoinette, guilty of no crime other than marrying the former king, was executed on the grounds of treason (“French Revolution: The Reign of Terror”). Many thought this was taking a step too far. The former Queen was well-respec...
old. The marriage between Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, the future King of France, was
The fact that she was going to be executed by that man and she said sorry for simply stepping on his foot shows about her character. Her execution was a major turning point in the revolution. One major myth about Marie Antoinette is about her "famous" saying; "Let them eat cake!" There is no proof that she ever said that.
Marie Antoinette’s last words were thought to be polite as she braved her fate in a simple white dress, already having wished her children the best (“The Grand Dauphin”), “Pardon me Sir, I meant not to do it", to the executioner, whose foot she accidentally stepped on before she was executed. Her body was thrown into an unmarked cemetery, rue d'Anjou until exhumed in 1815 and properly reburied (Buzzi).
Theodore Roosevelt was born in New York City on October 27, 1858. Teddy as a young boy hated the nickname Teddy. His father Theodore Roosevelt Sr. of Dutch heritage and his mother Martha Bulloch was known as a southern belle. His family owned a glass import business. He spent most of his early life in his family’s home getting homeschooled due to his asthma and illness. This is where Teddy found his love for animal life, but by his teens his dad made him follow a physical routine that included weightlifting and boxing. He went to college at Harvard and by his second year his dad passed away and that caused him to work harder to achieve his goals. He was distraught because of his father’s death and wrote in his journal “the aim and purpose of my life had been taken away”. One of Roosevelt’s quote on hard work is “Far and away, the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing”. Roosevelt graduated Harvard with high honors magna cum laude in 1880 and then he enrolled at Columbia Law School and fell in love with Alice Hathaway Lee of Massachusetts. Instead of finishing Law schoo...
Joan lived during a turbulent time in French history. The French and English states had been at war since 1337 over disputed territories in France and who could inherit the French throne. The English claimed that their king could inherit the French throne through shared royal bloodlines and also inherit vast territories in present-day southwestern France. By the time of Joan’s birth, the English had secured almost all of France and were poised to capture the French crown. The French heir to the throne, the Dauphin, was forced into hiding and Paris was under English control. It was under these dire circumstances that Joan emerged.
With the price of coal rising rapidly, Roosevelt stepped in and puts E.E. Clark, the Grand Chief of Railway Conductors, on the commission. Shortly after, the commission reached a compromise and ended the strike. The miner’s received their concessions but did not earn union recognition. TR’s intervention saved the nation and was the turning point for Roosevelt’s increasingly popular administration (“Anthracite Coal”).
This is the strategy I have been using lately. I am a person as the book states “try(s) to prevent or avoid direct conflict” (O’Hair, Wiemann 180). I fear damaging or losing the relationship all together. This strategy has not been effective up to now because, Celine does not even know there is a problem.
...hysical fighting.” (Teen Dating Violence). In any case of abuse the victim will always want out, even if it means harming themselves or others.
For her privacy, I'll refer to her as Rin. I was happy for the first few months, but the relationship became suffocating later on. Rin wanted my undivided attention at all times of the day. In addition, Rin had severe anxiety. My love for Rin slowly died and obligation took its place. I felt obliged to stay with her. It's nauseating that I felt this way, but what else could I do? I thought that I had to stay with Rin to keep her safe from herself. As a result, I stayed with her, not as a lover, but a caretaker. One evening with friends, Rin demanded we leave, for Rin didn't like that she had to share me. I couldn't deal with her distancing me from friends anymore. I called Rin and cut all ties between us and our mutual friends. I gave her neither chance for dialogue nor reprisal, just like Paul Neruda. In hindsight, I didn't love her. Because I am a loser who has no chance in love, I was more in love with the idea of a girlfriend. As a result, I didn't love Rin, I loved my girlfriend. If I had truly had feelings for Rin, I would've resolved my problems through dialogue, not by running away like a
A logically self-contradictory utterance is not only false, it cannot possibly describe anything. Therefore, it may also be called an impossible description. A tautological utterance, on the other hand, says something true, but it supplies no new information about the world. Therefore, from a common sense point of view, it is a superfluous description. There are at least, I will show, three other kinds of utterances which adequately can be called impossible descriptions and three which can be called superfluous descriptions. Only views which belong ...
On every food product there is a table of nutritional information that states the exact health contents of the food. There is also a list of ingredients that provides consumers with details regarding the food. In today’s times, consumers are flooded with choices of seemingly similar products. I do not know the difference in nutrition amongst these products. Food labelling is often misleading and deceptive, and I feel as if I have been left in the dark, but also that there is a hidden shadow side that may exist as consumers’ ignoracne may lead to naive incorrect choices.
The bruises of the heart linger forever; these bruises cannot heal as the bruise on the skin does. Emotional abuse does more harm to the heart that physical abuse does (Stosny, 2008). Mentally it will kill one inside, with fear from the heart all the way to the brain, you are affected in so many ways.Yes, physical abuse leaves bruises on the surface and scars in the heart, yet once they heal it seems to get easier to handle and deal with. Once words are spoken, they cannot be taken back, they will cut the heart like a knife with a wound that can never heal; therefore, think before you speak.
Marriage is legal bound between man and women to spend their whole lives together. While living together they may face conflicts including perception, making a decision. Every marriage has challenges. Every marriage has difficulties because marriage is comprised of two people of very different personalities, very different gifting. Two people that are independent and they decide to come together and be married for the rest of their life. Well this can cause conflict. Aggression is an important factor creating a conflict Aggression is any behavior directed toward another individual that is carried out with the immediate intent to cause harm. Research shows that aggressive behavior leads to