Short monologue (YouTube video) arguing that avoiding conflicts — in marriage or in leadership — creates resentment, prevents learning and growth, and must be addressed directly. The speaker warns that time won’t fix unresolved issues and emphasizes the need for active attention and conversation to prevent long-term damage.
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Sometimes we think time is going to take care of stuff. It doesn't happen. It doesn't happen. You have to make sure you take care of stuff. In a marriage, if you're trying to avoid a fight, guess what's going to happen with that fight? It's going to come back up. It's going to come back up always. It always comes back up. So some of us try to avoid having fights. You can't in marriage. It's the worst thing you can do. That's how you build resentment. That's how you don't learn about each other. That's how you don't grow death by a thousand paper cuts. All of a sudden you have some resentment and you don't even know how to expl why. That also happens with your people in leadership, too. Your teammates learn to resent each other and they might learn to resent you as well just because you've been avoiding them and they desperately need your attention. They desperately need to talk to you. They desperately want to prove to you that they want to make you proud and you've been avoiding them.