Most people treat conflict like it’s radioactive avoiding it at all costs and unknowingly fast-tracking their relationship straight into frustration, resentment, and eventually… a full-blown emotional dumpster fire.

But here’s the truth: conflict is your biggest opportunity. When you learn how to do conflict—rather than letting conflict do you, your relationships become stronger, safer, and dramatically more satisfying.

In this first episode of The Framework Podcast, therapist and consultant David Waselkow and co-host Tyler Burke down the foundational elements of the Framework:

• the Why/What communication tool,
• affirmative vs. prohibitive thinking,
• why relationships are about rules, and
• how conflicts are actually rule disputes, nothing more and nothing less.

You’ll learn how to identify your needs, advocate for them without apology, and use rule proposals and rule negotiations to build clarity, safety, and connection. This is the groundwork for a relational skillset powerful enough to transform not just your marriage or partnership, but every important relationship in your life.

If you’re tired of fights that go nowhere, tired of walking on eggshells, or tired of watching relationships slowly erode, this episode gives you the tools and the mindset to change the game.

Welcome to the Framework. The more you change your thinking, the more you change your life.