Conflict style is the pattern of how a person behaves in the first 10 minutes of a disagreement with a partner. BiggDate's Maahi probes this directly because conflict in early minutes is the strongest signal of long-term compatibility — relationships rarely fail because of disagreement, they fail because of how disagreement is handled.
Common patterns: direct confrontation (raise the issue immediately, tone may be sharp), withdrawal (go silent, shut down, need space), repair-seeking (pause and try to restore connection before unpacking), pursuit (follow into another room, escalate to demand resolution), and stonewalling (refuse to engage, dismiss).
BiggDate uses conflict style alongside attachment style to predict friction in a pair. Two confronters can work if both are direct and recover quickly. Confronter + withdrawer is the most common bad pattern.
Conflict style is not a moral judgment. It is information.