Great post as always @jerrybanfield. It is amazing how stepping away from a conflict or problem just to create the separation can help to ease mending the path to resolution. We need to make sure that not just us personally, but the other that we are in conflict with has the opportunity to heal or find resolution. I have been guilty so many times of falling on sword to avoid confrontation only to find that my actions only dealt greater harm further because I took the path that while placing blame on me, but I placed guilt on my wife for still being mad at me even though she had every right to be that way.