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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Madeleine Aggeler

Conflict is healthy and normal. We asked experts how to approach it better

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Chris Seeley and Huda Mustafa on Love Island. Photograph: Peacock/Ben Symons/Getty Images

Reality TV is generally not the first place one should turn to find models of effective communication. That’s why it was shocking to watch a scene in the latest season of Love Island US, in which Chris, a basketball player, asks the woman he’s seeing – Huda, a fitness influencer – if there’s anything he does that bothers her.

It affects his mood “when something goes wrong, but I’m confused about what happened”, he says.

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