Some of our strongest memories are also painful ones. Often they involve fights with a spouse or a girlfriend over any of a number of issues. If fighting brings on so much pain, why do we continue to engage in them?

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Chronic fighting doesn’t just happen to clueless couples who know nothing about resolving conflict. Sometimes there are wrong things about the relationship that invite constant bickering. Five of these are are discussed below:

1.) Incompatibility

No two people are alike so conflict is inevitable.

But the less compatible you are with your partner, the more differences you will have and these will always be a potential source of conflict. When two people are completely incompatible, the best that they can hope for is a relationship that is based 100 percent on compromise.

Some consider compromise to be a noble thing, but if your entire relationship and your life is nothing but a collection of compromises, it’s not much of a relationship or a life.
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