The willingness to bring conflict to the table, to make yourself vulnerable, shows a faith in your relationship, an investment in a relationship, a belief that your relationship could be better than it is. For me, when someone is not bringing up conflict, that is being unfaithful to the relationship. It’s an abdication of your role in the relationship, and you are actually dumping all of the responsibility on your partner to make things better and to resolve your conflicts—burdening them with the sole responsibility to speak those things out loud.
