People tend to adopt means of conflict resolution within the first few months of the relationship and maintain it for years or even decades. I know your father and I have, and it has been a constant struggle. Communication is tough for us. Maybe its age. Maybe we never learned how in the beginning,. But we are still working on it and always will. I am writing you this blog dear son, in hopes that you will read it, learn from it, and that others will too. To share your father and I’s struggles and triumphs. I certainly don’t want you to have to go through the same mistakes, I, well, we, have made in order to learn them.
The ability to be flexibile in your ideas and habits will decrease your inclination to disagree and increase your inclination to compromise. COMPROMISE is KEY.
You have to love your friend, girlfriend, or spouse, MORE than you love being right all the time!
Many of these posts are in regards to relationships in the sense of your father and I, or mistakes in relationships before your dad and I met. However, relationships are relationships. Taken in context, this can mean a good friend, a best friend, or even just a buddy in your group.
Compromise and Respect.
Love,
Mom
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