t sixteen hundred dollars. We had a couple of different options, and couldn't agree which one would best suit the situation. I will address these conflicts in more detail as I use them to discuss dysfunctional conflicts.
The first conflict I will address happened at the "happiest place on earth". Disneyland is my wife's favorite place to go. Ever since she was little she has been fascinated with Walt Disney, and especially Disneyland. We found time to go during a three day weekend. The first morning of our Disneyland vacation started out bad. While my wife was getting ready I asked her where she wanted to eat lunch. I was thinking of going to an Inn-N-Out Burger that was close to the hotel. She said that she wanted to eat in the park. This made me mad because we had decided not to spend a lot of money on our little vacation. I told her that the food in the park was really expensive, and that we better eat outside the park. She started to get really upset. She said that she didn't drive four hours to eat lunch at Inn-N-Out Burger. We were both pretty tired from the drive the night before, and this little argument got out of control. We started to bring up other things that weren't even related to our conflict, and we started to argue about them too. In the end, the first three hours at Disneyland were terrible.
This argument was dysfunctional because of two important factors. The first factor was our letting t
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