A beautiful piece in the New York Times, Modern Love Column this weekend:
For divorce mediators, some important lessons for us (personally and professionally) and for our clients: giving voice to anger and difficulties in the relationship, fighting for a relationship and being willing to have hard conversations. The failure to do so can be fatal to a relationship and leave you feeling empty. There is a sense, often, that one must “behave” and swallow the pain. Here, the writer says that by NOT fighting, her marriage withered away. In particular, we love this quotation from Shakespeare: “My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart, concealing it, will break.”