Relationships!
Oh relationships… love ’em, hate ’em, however you want to approach them, they are going to be a regular part of your life unless you are a hermit or a solitary monastic. It is the utter existential quality of human beings that we are social creatures and nothing we do can really undo that fact. Most, if not all, of our mental health struggles root in some failure of relationship; too much, not enough, twisted off course, you name it. (more…)