Do you fight with your partner? About the bins perhaps, or the washing up?
Whatever the superficial graze that manifests in a row, it starts, says psychologist Kim Polinder, in much deeper wounds.
We fight, she says, because those core wounds are hurt again and again by something we feel deep within – like the press of a bruise, or the reopening of a cut.
Our fighting isn’t really about putting out the recycling or who last did the washing up; it’s about something old and sore.
Kim Polinder: psychologist and therapist
Conflict triggers past trauma, causing people to
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