Nonviolent Communication and Conflict Management

As I think about a disagreement I experience I have to focus on the occasional disagreements I have with my husband.  One disagreement we have is over cooking. As a wife, working fulltime, going to school and taking care of family sometimes get quite overwhelming for me. However my husband really wants a home cooked meal about four of five times out of the week, which really isn’t conducive for my schedule.  However the strategies I feel that will help me manage or resolve conflict more productive is Win / Win and the Going to the Balcony Approach. Each of these approaches offer remarkable results to conflict resolution that centers on listening.  These strategies might be effective because they offer compromise in matter that produces positive results for both parties. To put these approaches in force I listen to my husband points regarding the issues of us eating out so much.   I suggested that on Sunday I prepare at least three meats and that way I don’t have to try to prepare so many full course meals daily. Then all I would have to do daily is add a side dish which isn’t very time consuming. He agreed and this gave him more home cooked meals and did not compromise so much of my time in the kitchen. I feel that this disagreement benefit from the 3 R’s as well because we offered the components of the 3’s to this environment and produce a solutions that we both found rewarding.

References:

The Third Side. (n.d.). The third side. Retrieved from http://www.thirdside.org/

Conflict Resolution Network. (n.d.). CR kit. Retrieved from http://www.crnhq.org/pages.php?pID=12#skill_3.