In a difficult conversation once you understand each other’s perspective, you both can turn your efforts to finding a solution:
- Difficult conversations, if respectful and honest, help us create much deeper relationships than if we tiptoe around each other.
- A difficult conversation is not a contest with a winner and a loser. Even if you think you’ve won, your relationship with the “loser” will forever be mistrustful and unpleasant.
- To have a productive conversation, especially when it is about a past issue, you must be able to let go of judgments.
- When we stop communicating, we fill that gap with our own interpretations, insecurities and fear.
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