Getting to Zero: How to Work Through Conflict, Stay Together, and Thrive in Your Relationship

The fastest and most reliable path to long-term relationship success as a couple is to learn how to overcome disagreements together.

Conflicts in close relationships are frightening because so much is at stake. As a result of conflict, you can lose your family, the people you love, or your job—everything connected with our safety and survival. To avoid losing these crucial ties, we try to avoid getting into arguments. Meanwhile, an unresolved conflict affects every aspect of our lives—from self-confidence to physical and mental health.

Jason Gaddis is a relationships consultant and one of the world’s leading authorities on interpersonal conflicts. For almost two decades, Gaddis helps individuals, couples, and teams get to the heart of their deepest disagreements. He teaches his clients to see wisdom in conflict and helps them understand how to reach “zero”—the purity and clarity we feel when we successfully deal with disagreements.

In his book, Gaddis shows readers how to stop avoiding uncomfortable conversations and instead learn to build them the right way. He provides a set of practical tools that will help the reader move from disagreements to acceptance and understanding. He encourages abandoning familiar outdated approaches to conflict resolution and offers a fresh, user-friendly roadmap that clearly indicates how to resolve disagreements with the people you care about most.