I am reminded, as I read this, of the note I wrote to myself earlier this year when I was in the midst of an interpersonal conflict: Communicate Toward Connection. The reminder to myself showed me how easily I swerved toward blame and therefore disconnection. That friendship eventually did disconnect but it was because of a divergence of values, not because I had burned it down in angry haste, which makes its end much easier to accept.
I am reminded, as I read this, of the note I wrote to myself earlier this year when I was in the midst of an interpersonal conflict: Communicate Toward Connection. The reminder to myself showed me how easily I swerved toward blame and therefore disconnection. That friendship eventually did disconnect but it was because of a divergence of values, not because I had burned it down in angry haste, which makes its end much easier to accept.