Good Conflict

Good Conflict

“We never fight,” she says with a prideful gloat in her voice. She glances at her husband as if I should be giving them a gold star in marital accomplishment. Conversely, my insides scream, “Oh boy. I’ve got my work cut-out for me here.” Avoiding conflict is not the...
Holding Both the Good and the Bad

Holding Both the Good and the Bad

You could feel the tension in the room. The unprocessed negative emotion, like a trough of hardening concrete, sat between them on my green couch. As they both looked at me with pleading and desperate eyes to “fix this,” she gently put her hand on his leg. I slowed to...