The article discusses how successful couples often engage in conflict, but their success stems from a shared sense of irony. Couples who view their struggles with a lighthearted perspective can break out of negative cycles of behavior and communication. Irony serves as a crucial skill, allowing individuals to step back from contentious situations and avoid getting trapped in repetitive patterns shaped by their past experiences. This ability fosters a healthier, more realistic view of the relationship and oneself, enhancing mental well-being and interpersonal dynamics.
Successful couples are not couples who never fight or are on everything at every moment. Often, couples who never fight have concealed issues or have made a decision, privately or not, that there is nothing worth fighting for.
Irony is the ability to look at a situation from an imaginary 'third eye' and see it partly as a cheerful absurdity. In Albert Camus's famous example of Sisyphus, he invites us to 'imagine Sisyphus happy.'
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