How to Break Relationship Patterns: Resolving Conflict and Communicating Your Needs

Dr. Rick Hanson and Forrest Hanson explore how relationships get stuck in predictable conflict patterns. Drawing on Rick's decades of work with couples and families, they cover getting on the same team, making clear requests, healthy boundaries, differentiation, and the pursuer-distancer dynamic. The episode closes with Forrest and his fiancée, associate therapist Elizabeth Ferreira, discussing fixing versus feeling and how they worked through it in their own relationship.