Your Life, Unlimited

A relation of mine and I had a blow up recently. The two of us, normally rational adults who get along just fine - were at odds. It was awful, uncomfortable and sad. He was upset and I was crying. For over an hour we dumped our issues on the table and tried to sort them out with little success. From different provinces, it is rare to literally be sitting across the table together and so to process things after the fact, in our own spaces was necessary. As I reflected upon our conversation, the situation and the emotions that were going wild (mostly mine), I thought about the intent of our conversations and especially about the difficult situation that preceded it. It was never either of our intentions to hurt, disappoint or upset the other person. Yet that is what transpired for both of us. Hurt. Disappointment. Upset. And we could have left it at that; take a relationship that was strong and let it die. We could pretend it never happened. Or we can deal with it. At the end of the day, maybe it doesn't really