When everyone is together, see if each family member can fill in the following blanks for other family members. Through Conflict Individuals who have unique personalities and who are trying to develop a meaningful family life will experience conflict. This is normal. It is not conflict itself that presents the problem. Instead, what really matters is how families deal with conflict.
Healthy families handle conflict in a creative and nondestructive way.
They recognize issues early and make decisions based on the input of each family member. They consider each person s ideas carefully and weigh the consequences of different alternatives. Members of a healthy family do not give in to conflict or feel intimidated by it. Every family member is allowed to express his or her opinion without the fear of being rejected. When real negotiation takes place, the members feel a deeper sense of what being in a family means, and all benefit from going through conflict and decision making together.