• Relationships & Peacemaking

    Because you’re better with words, you’re going to win this argument—but that doesn’t make you right.

    The teacher wasn’t talking to me or even about me (in this specific situation), but he was so talking about me when he described a recent fight he had with his wife: “Tempers were raging. She was hurt. I was hurt. She started to slip down The Slippery Slope to her comfort zone—the Escape responses. I started to SLAM down The Slippery Slope into my area of expertise—Attack. (Not physically of course! Just putting all of those years of law school and seminary to work to attack in the most common way—with my words.) But then. She was so brave. She was so accurate when she said to me: “Because you are better with words and you think faster…