If you’re a learner and a grower, you don’t want to be in relationships where there’s that kind of added pressure to not own your own mistakes. A: “Hey, can we stop arguing for a minute, step back, and reconsider our positions? After all, I could be wrong, and I’d want to be able to […]
This originally appeared on Alternet.org. Republished here with permission. Impasses inevitably arise in any relationship. The question is how you negotiate them. Meta is my favorite prefix. It refers to whatever follows it: meta-cognition means thinking about thinking, or a meta-blog is a blog about blogging. Meta-incompatibility means incompatibility about incompatibility. If you and your partner negotiate incompatibilities using different […]
