A man learned conflict resolution the hard way: evicting a roommate and then directing a Sunday school class where he had to address sexual harassment with no training. He realized avoiding difficult conversations only makes things worse.
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And then from there I said, ah, how much longer I'm going to put up this dream. So that's how that started. And the specific focus on conflict resolution is, if you can't already pick up on it. It's a personal struggle, one where I've had to deal with a number of situations where not having the difficult conversation was holding me back. And I didn't want to admit that until the consequences got to severe. And so some of the situations I've had to deal with that kind of made me realize I had to make this, you know, a focal point was that, you know, I had to evict a roommate at one point, and that wasn't fun. At one point, I served as a Sunday school class director. And my second day on the job, I found out that a newer guy was sexually harassing a woman in the class. And they told me, jerry, you're director, you got to go handle this. And of course, they had me know there's no manual for this.