When we hide from conflict, we're avoiding a chance to deepen our relationships. I remember a beautiful sermon I heard years ago on "becoming married." It was given by the then dean of the Houston Cathedral, Pittman McGehee. He urged us to see marriage as a process and, especially, to be open to the negative side of intimacy---the hurt, the criticism, the losses that bring depth to the relationship and bring us closer to each other. He cautioned us to be wary of a relationship that has no room for anger or pain, that is lived on the surface of niceness behind smiling masks that block us from experiencing our own vulnerability and each other's reality. He pleaded with us to realize that the self-protective devices behind which we barricade ourselves are actually self-destructive.
Excerpt from the book, On Becoming Fearless by Arianna Huffington
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