Fight right: how successful couples turn conflict into connection

Thu Nov 20 2025 at 06:30 pm to 09:00 pm UTC-05:00

Kathmandu Restaurant | Toronto

Toronto Non-fiction Book Club
Publisher/HostToronto Non-fiction Book Club
Fight right: how successful couples turn conflict into connection
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Monthly Meetup event of the Toronto Non-Fiction Book Club
About this Event

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Book description

New York Times Bestseller. Conflict is the top reason couples seek help—but it's also an opportunity for greater intimacy, deeper connection, and lasting love according to this essential guide from the world’s leading relationship scientists and authors of The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work and Eight Dates.

How we fight predicts the future of our relationships. Most of us blunder into conflict without knowing what we are really fighting about and then quickly become overwhelmed by physiological responses we can’t control and emotions we don’t anticipate. The truth is the happiest and most successful couples fight—all the time. Conflict is human, and necessary.

Through decades of research, Drs. John and Julie Gottman, founders of the world-famous Love Lab, have identified the five common mistakes we make when we are at odds. In Fight Right, we learn the five secrets that help us to get back on track and harness conflict to build stronger, healthier relationships. With kindness, clarity, and a deep understanding of the struggles couples are going through, the Gottmans show us that we each have a unique conflict culture, borne of how we were raised and how we experienced past relationships, and they take us through all the possible combinations, from Avoiders, to Validators, to Volatiles, and how they can best work together.

Fight Right is an essential resource that will help couples escape the win-or-lose mentality in favor of a collaborative approach: calming down, staying connected, and really understanding, so that our fights can bring us closer.

Event description

  • We meet to discuss the book after having read it beforehand.
  • A facilitator guides the discussion ensuring that everyone has a chance to speak, one person at a time.
  • We alternate between in-person and zoom events each month.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Kathmandu Restaurant, 12 Cumberland Street, Toronto, Canada

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