How to Split a Toaster: A Divorce Podcast About Saving Your Relationships

Ninety percent of divorce conflict can be resolved through dialog and negotiation. But what about that last ten percent? Megan Hunter of the High Conflict Institute joins the Toaster this week to help us navigate the volatile divorce.

Show Notes

We continue our hiatus as we prepare for season five. In today’s episode, we return to season three and our conversation with Megan Hunter at the Hight Conflict Institute in a great conversation about dealing with divorce with high conflict people.

Ninety percent of divorce conflict can be resolved through dialog and negotiation. But what about that last ten percent? In these situations you might find yourself interacting with partners that have moved from the frustration and grief natural in the divorce process and into what we have come to call high conflict behavior.

Megan Hunter co-founded the High Conflict Institute, an organization dedicated to this group that engages in high conflict behaviors. What is high conflict behavior in the divorce process? How do you resolve conflict when risk is high and this behavior is potentially dangerous? How do you move toward settlement when any resolution appears to be impossible? Join us today to find out.

Links & Notes

  • (00:00) - Welcome to How to Split a Toaster
  • (01:09) - Introducing Megan Hunter
  • (03:40) - Psychology and the High Conflict Divorce
  • (07:26) - Is High Conflict Behavior Triggerable?
  • (13:08) - Empathy and The Brain
  • (20:05) - Give them an E.A.R.
  • (29:24) - Dealing with Narcissists
  • (32:19) - The BIFF Response
  • (40:46) - The BIFF Check and the Three As

Creators & Guests

Host
Pete Wright
Podcaster and co-host, Pete Wright brings years of marriage and a spirit of curiosity to the divorce process. He's spent the last two decades interviewing experts and thinkers in emotional healing and brings that with him to the law, divorce, and saving relationships in the process.
Host
Seth R. Nelson
Seth Nelson is the founding attorney and managing partner at NLG Divorce & Family Law. He is a Tampa-based family lawyer known for devising creative solutions to difficult problems.
Producer
Andy Nelson
Hailing from nearly 25 years in the world of film, television, and commercial production, Andy has always had a passion for storytelling, no matter the size of the package.

What is How to Split a Toaster: A Divorce Podcast About Saving Your Relationships?

Seth Nelson is a Tampa based family lawyer known for devising creative solutions to difficult problems. In How to Split a Toaster, Nelson and co-host Pete Wright take on the challenge of divorce with a central objective — saving your most important relationships with your family, your former spouse, and yourself.