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This Big Mistake Makes Marital Arguments So Much Worse

By Steve Calechman

Break the Loop: How to Stop Having the Same Argument Over and Over Again

By Jeremy Brown

7 Strategies to Stop Small Arguments From Turning Into Big Fights

The Dumbest Family Fight We Had During Quarantine

By Matt Christensen

The Anger Epidemic Is Coming For American Parents

COVID-19 Doesn't Have to End in Divorce

By Jeremy Brown

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Help! My Kids Are Fighting So Much That I Dread Coming Home. "It makes coming home awful. It makes being at home awful. It has split the family apart, honestly"

Father & Child Relationships

32 Small, Nice Things to Do After a Big Fight Because what you do after a fight is as important as what you might have done during the argument.

These Are the Most Common Arguments Married Couples Have A ranking of the 12 biggest sources of conflict for married couples.

Health & Science

Your In-Laws and Your Wife Are Fighting. Here's What to Do — And What Not To One second you're all at the family barbecue, the next, everyone is yelling and throwing their potato salad at each other.

How to Keep an Intense Argument From Spiraling Out of Control A disagreement with your partner can go from zero to warp speed with one misplaced word. Here’s how you can keep it on cruise control.

The 6-Step Trick to Ending Every Argument Quickly Remember this the next time you have a fight with your wife or husband.

When Kids Fear School Shootings How do parents address legitimate fears of gun violence without exacerbating the harm done? Very carefully.

Father & Child Relationships

The Silliest, Most Absurd Fight We've Ever Had, According To 16 Married People In marriage, you'll have a lot of fights. Many will be serious. Many more will be completely ridiculous and hilarious in retrospect.

10 Things to Never, Ever Say When Arguing With Your Spouse When a disagreement spirals into a full-blown brawl, there are certain phrases you need to avoid. These ten should never be spoken.

The Gosars are an Average American Family Six siblings of Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar have publicly endorsed his opponent and it doesn't even feel weird anymore.

The Biggest Fight We Had As New Parents — And How We Worked It Out From the Great Onesie Debate to The Bath-Time Brawl

There Are No 'Loud Kids' This week, Fatherly's resident parenting expert talks about why make up sex is a bad idea, how to keep a 5-year-old quiet and why you might want to avoid that baby powder.

Father & Child Relationships

I Tried Having My Kids Punish Themselves and Found Inner Peace A week of letting my children choose their own consequences showed that kids have an innate sense of restorative justice when they want to.

You're Going to Fight in Your Marriage. Here's How to Make it Productive. Productive for both your marriage and your children's social development.

How to Argue Better When You Hate Conflict It's all about learning how to engage and argue in a style that suits your personality.

6 Punching Bags You'll Love to Wail On Want to work out some aggression on a punchable torso? Add a new layer of stat-tracking to your boxing workout? These bags have you covered.

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