Relationships are a central player in this growth process. Other people challenge and enrich us. With new relationships come new expectations, new troubles, new hills to climb, and often we’re not “ready.” Very few people, for example, are ever perfectly ready to become a parent. But becoming a parent, and being responsible for a tiny human being, has a way of making most of us ready. It pushes us. Somehow we live up to what we have to do, relationship by relationship, stage by stage, and in the process, we change. We grow.
