Conflict is like fire. Blame, yelling, and defensiveness pour gasoline on it. Ignoring it lets it smolder and erode the relationship. How you respond determines whether the relationship breaks or strengthens.
Conflict. It can destroy your relationship, or it can actually make it stronger. It's really your choice. So let's think of conflict as if it's a fire. And fire, for very good reason, can at times be something that's scary to deal with, just like conflict. Now, what a lot of us do without realizing it is that we actually are throwing gasoline on that fire. We blame, we yell, we judge, we get defensive. And that's only going to make things worse and often out of control. Other people think, maybe I can just ignore it or possibly avoid the fire. But what's going to happen then? Isn't it going to just keep smoldering and eating away at things until before long it's destroyed everything in its path?
