we can’t control how people will respond once we’ve let them in on our struggles. They might say something insensitive. They might minimize the depth of our pain. They might paste on a smile and quote Scripture at us. They might do all these things on the same day. To these and a thousand other pushbacks, I have only one response: you’re right. You’re right. You are! But every valuable relationship in my life is one I have had to fight for. People can be jerks and flighty, inconsiderate and self-centered and forgetful. I know this because I am a person, and I’ve been all these things at some
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