You made up weeks ago. So why is the old fight back on the table the moment a new one starts?

Rav Chaim Friedlander brings the Gemara in Niddah: a man is easily appeased and a woman is not, because each was created from something different. Adam came from the soft earth; Chava was built from bone. Rabbi Klapper explains what that means in a real home. The intellect can admit a mistake and move on, but emotions don't settle so fast, and an old hurt can be woken by the smallest trigger. So when she brings up the last fight, don't answer with "Why are you bringing that up? We finished with that." Know in advance that it will happen, and appease her again, with patience. He also shares what his own Rav told him about a mechila that didn't seem to fully take.

Then a chizuk for every couple: Rav Shimshon Pincus calls Chanukah "the first good fight". A wedding proves nothing; a kesher shows its strength when a couple goes through a fight and comes out closer. Rabbi Klapper ends with a point from the shiurim of Rav Don Segal: a woman, created to be an ezer kenegdo, can hardly bear feeling blamed, because blame tells her she has given her husband a reason not to love her. That is why she may argue against all logic. The answer is to put the kesher ahead of your ego, and to decide that before the moment comes, not in the middle of it.

Ready to stop fighting the last argument and start building past it? Tune in.

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