Everyone loses when you fight beyond your stress limits.

You have been misled to believe that you ought to battle out every conflict to the bitter end. Your conflict, trudging a worn path of re-runs and greatest hits. Please. Go to bed mad.

Allow yourself a break to calm down.

A break, not an excuse to avoid conflict. A break for your brain to return to a calmer and problem-solving mode. The experts say at least 20 minutes, but up to 24 hours.

Fight fair by expecting and asserting more timeouts in conflict.

Journal Prompts:
I wish I would have taken a break…
I wish someone else would have taken a break when…