Disputes with your man are no fun, but they’re bound to occur. And when they do, you
may worry that the loving bonds you’ve established in your relationship will somehow

begin to erode. Not so, because "fighting is a necessary ingredient for intimacy. It shows

that you’re invested enough to want to hash something out instead of just writing each

other off.”

So as warped as it sounds, disagreements can actually provide an opportunity for you and
your guy to grow closer — if you deal with them constructively instead of letting them
devolve into huge, ugly blowouts. “It takes emotional intelligence to take the anger out of

an issue and talk about it productively, and many people don’t learn those skills growing up,”