Leadership coach Diana Chapman explains how psychological 'upper limits' cause couples to unconsciously pick fights around weekend periods of emotional intimacy.
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“More couples will fight on Friday night than any night of the week. And I think that's an upper limits pattern because it's like, oh, honey, We have the whole weekend now to, you know, have more connection. And so that'll be a threat somehow to well, you know, to how good we can have it. So we'll fight. And then maybe we spend the weekend unwinding our fight. The second most popular night of the week to fight is on Sunday nights.”
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