Managing Conflicts in Relationship

Everyone of us faces conflict on a daily basis: at home, with neighbors, service providers, at work and commercially. We have all discovered that such conflicts always cost us emotionally, and may cost us financially depending on the situation. Resolving such conflicts feels good and is good! Yet we have all discovered just how difficult that can be. 

One of the conflicts I can remember of is the conflict I sometimes have with the teacher I’m assisting in the class, most times when she tells me to do something she doesn’t bother to say please. This bothers me a lot and I don’t know how to bring it up to let her know how I feel about it. Here is the person that usually asks the children to use their manner when they are talking especially asking her to help them to do something. I could remember there was a time we had to meet with other team members and one of the teachers asked her to help him get a chair and she told him that he forgot to put please. I would really appreciate it, if anyone could give me some heads up on how to handle it.

Another conflict I used to have is when people get me wrong. That is when I say something they interpret it to mean something else which usually cause a lot of argument. What I usually do when I know the argument could affect my relationship with the person is to keep quiet and listen to what the person is trying to say even though I don’t agree with what is trying to say but just for peace to reign.

“Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.”
― Dorothy Thompson

Reference:

http://www.peaceworks.org.uk/conflict-management-training/?gclid=CjkKEQjwqsCcBRDt7_Gts5a91YYBEiQAm-wYEeL_e97OHLQ0xlF6CwUAFgi78KkJ5D5kT1i_7PVbTR3w_wcB