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AN ORIGINAL EDUCATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR RECURRING CONVERSATIONS
Most couples can predict how the conversation will end. Far fewer can explain why different topics keep ending in the same argument.
The assessment reveals the communication patterns behind recurring conflict, so you can stop guessing what’s happening and start recognizing it.
Not sure where to start? Take the assessment, or book a quick call to talk it through.
The surface topic can change while a recurring interaction sequence continues in different forms.
The Conversation Cores Method gives you language for examining your recurring sequence and choosing what to do the next time it starts.
“Money. Always money. We’d start there and end somewhere I didn’t even know how we got to. I’d been making the same point for fifteen years and assuming he was choosing not to get it.”
Lina V.
“She was always tired. I knew she was tired. I told myself she was just bad at sleeping. The workshop was where I started looking at how much of what I called my life she was making possible.”
Ben M.
“I kept saying he wasn’t listening. He kept saying I was angry. We were both right and neither one of us could prove it.”
“We’d stopped fighting. For a while I thought that meant we were okay. The workshop gave us a place to look at it. Turned out we’d just been quiet about the same things, not over them.”
Drew P.
“My husband and I have been married for sixteen years. I didn’t know I’d disappeared until someone asked me what I wanted and I couldn’t answer. I’d stopped having my own answers years ago. I have some now.”
Composite testimonials drawn from client work. Names changed for confidentiality.
Conversation Cores is Amber Frazier-Finkelstein’s original educational method. It draws from established research on couples communication, recurring conflict, demand and withdrawal, adult attachment, conflict styles, and emotion regulation. Read how the Method draws from and differs from that research on the Method page.
To begin with your own response, try the five-line exercise for one recent conversation.
Recurring arguments can continue for years when the interaction sequence beneath them remains hard to see. The assessment takes about 5 minutes. 16 questions, free. You’ll see your primary and backup Conversation Cores and have something practical to use before the next time the argument comes up.
The topic can change while the conversation keeps making the same turn. The free Conversation Cores Assessment helps you notice the response you reach for under pressure and gives you language for what to examine next. It is an educational self-reflection tool, not a diagnosis or clinical instrument.
See how the Conversation Cores Method works or take the assessment.