If you mean by

"to approach the issue from a place of neutrality,"

Having no stake in the relationship or attempting to be what most people consider Objective. I don't agree. I don't think neutrality is possible in a relationship.

The place I am at is to recognize when others are being irrational usually by attempting to be the expert on what I am doing or who I am. This just makes me smile inside and listen to what is being presented to me for the gold in the chaff.

I think that if I can't learn from someone else that is my own inability and not someone else's. A truth is that knowing that you don't have to take what someone else says as the truth or as anything that you must act on is freeing. Then you can focus on the attitude that produces the most for you. It then is not about conflict, but about cooperation. Either getting it or giving it according to the advantage one receives.

Just in case you need to know. This is just my opinion and not anything that you have to believe or act on. lolol