"**Every relationship is like a garden, and every garden has weeds. Arguments are the little weeds of our relationship that grow up around the things we intentionally plant. Some arguments don’t seem so bad and might be easy to work around whenever they pop up. Others might be ugly enough that you go nuclear on them, and that patch of the yard is abandoned as scorched earth for a couple of years.** Either way, the weeds always come back, as reliably as the days and the seasons, despite our attempts to get rid of them once and for all." (~[Location 263](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B081J97HLQ&location=263)~) -- [[202308170954 — AtN — Productive disagreement can be a superpower]] *** **Tags** — [[quotes]], [[relationships]], [[conflict]], [[collaboration]], [[consistency]], **Source** — [[202308170952 — B — Why Are We Yelling]]